adhd Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:54:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 adhd Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Family Risk of Bipolar 1 and 2 Disorders and Schizophrenia https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/family-risk-of-bipolar-1-and-2-disorders-and-schizophrenia/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/family-risk-of-bipolar-1-and-2-disorders-and-schizophrenia/#respond Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:39:03 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=19099 Interesting study out of Taiwan that uses their fairly comprehensive population based data set to look at the relative risk of having different disorders in a family where one parent either has bipolar one or bipolar two disorder. I found this study interesting in that it suggests that bipolar one has a higher genetic loading for any kind of bipolar ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/family-risk-of-bipolar-1-and-2-disorders-and-schizophrenia/feed/ 0 19099 Adult Onset ADHD Symptoms – What Do They Mean? https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/adult-onset-adhd-symptoms-mean/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/adult-onset-adhd-symptoms-mean/#respond Sat, 04 Nov 2017 23:46:13 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=14827 Adult onset ADHD symptoms – symptoms of inattentiveness or hyperactivity that are present in adulthood but did not exist to a clinically significant degree in childhood – have been the subject of much controversy in the research literature in the last three years. Until recently,  it was understood that ADHD had to have its onset in childhood. In other words ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/adult-onset-adhd-symptoms-mean/feed/ 0 14827 ADHD Medication Reduces Accidents https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/adhd-medication-reduces-accidents/ Thu, 11 May 2017 13:23:45 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=13318 ADHD medication reduces accidents significantly according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry. Chang and colleagues analyzed data in the Truven Health Analytics MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters database to identify people aged 18 and older who had received an ADHD diagnosis or ADHD medication between January 2005 and the end of December 2014. The researchers compared the number of emergency department visits ...

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]]> 13318 Adult ADHD Not the Same as Childhood ADHD https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/adult-adhd-not-the-same-as-childhood-adhd/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:54:28 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=11009 Adult ADHD is not the same as childhood ADHD. Most people with adult ADHD never had childhood ADHD and most people with childhood ADHD never will have adult ADHD. This past year what was long thought to be known about adult ADHD turned out not to be true. Indeed, up until DSM-V adult ADHD could not be diagnosed unless someone ...

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