Neuropsychiatric Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder that Responds to ADHD Medication (NADHDM) in the International Classification of Diseases ICD- 11: An opportunity to increase sensitivity and specificity of diagnosis

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Beckmann, Martin
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Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common life span disorder associated with marked impairment at all ages. Efficacious treatment for ADHD has been in place for many decades. Past and present publications of ‘international classification of diseases’ (ICD) [1], past and present issues and ‘diagnostic statistical manual’ (DSM) [2] does not make use of the fact that a certain proportion of patients with ADHD have an excellent response to ADHD medication. The next edition of ICD is going to be published shortly [3]. The new ICD- 11 is an opportunity to increase sensitivity and specificity of diagnosis. There is a marked difference between ADHD syndrome and neuropsychiatric ADHD [4] that responds to ADHD medication (NADHDM). ADHD syndrome has a multitude of underlying pathologies [5], but neuropsychiatric ADHD has unlikely such a multitude of underlying pathologies [6]. ICD -11 has the opportunity to do well limiting diagnosis of ADHD to ‘ADHD neuropsychiatric disorder that responds to ADHD medication’ (NADHDM).

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International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education

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© The Author(s) 2014. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly

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Memory and attention

Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

ADHD

International Classification of Diseases

ICD- 11

specificity of diagnosis

sensitivity of diagnosis

medication

ADHD test

ADHD syndrome

neuropsychiatric ADHD (NADHDM)

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Beckmann, M, Neuropsychiatric Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder that Responds to ADHD Medication (NADHDM) in the International Classification of Diseases ICD- 11: An opportunity to increase sensitivity and specificity of diagnosis, International Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 2014, 1 (6)

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