The authors of mainstream psychiatric and psychiatric genetic publications believe that the major psychiatric disorders are “moderately to highly heritable.” Examples of pooled heritability estimates for various disorders include schizophrenia 84%, bipolar disorder 84%, ADHD 75%, borderline personality dis...
(ADHD, inattention) never understand why “hyperactivity” appears in their child’s diagnosis. Today one often finds the designations ADD (for ADHD, inattentive type) and ADHD (for ADHD, combined type) used. Historically the termshyperkinetic disorderof childhoodandminimal brain dysfunctionwere used...
DSM-5 has added specifiers to indicate the level of severity for both ASD symptom categories. Much of this effort to add severity to the diagnosis comes from a desire to resolve use of terms like high-functioning and low-functioning autism that were presumed to indicate severity and prognosis ...
Many times people who suffer from polysubstance abuse have one or more other disorders in addition to their addiction. These are called co-morbidities and frequently include: depression, anxiety, ADHD, insomnia, obsessionality, and panic attacks. These comorbid issues create obstacles to an addict’...