Young adult mental status of hyperactive boys and their brothers: a prospective follow-up study.

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This study reports on the psychiatric outcome as young adults (ages 16-23) of 50 hyperactive boys compared with their nonhyperactive brothers and to unrelated controls. Siblings provide a built-in control for potentially important factors, such as social class and parental psychopathology. Blind assessments at follow-up showed that significantly more probands (30%) than siblings (6%) and controls (10%) had...

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