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A family study of psychiatric comorbidity in girls and boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Oct 2001
Faraone S V, Biederman J, Mick E, Doyle A E, Wilens T, Spencer T, Frazier E, Mullen K
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BACKGROUND: Because attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is relatively infrequent among girls, little is known about the nature and causes of psychiatric comorbidity in girls and the reason for gender differences in the prevalence of these comorbidities. METHODS: Using blinded, structured psychiatric interviews, we studied two groups of boys: 140 ADHD probands and 120 non-ADHD comparisons. These groups...
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