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Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2021 September ; 128: 789–818. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.022.
The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus

Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder
A full list of authors and affiliations appears at the end of the article.
Abstract
Background: Misconceptions about ADHD stigmatize affected people, reduce credibility of
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providers, and prevent/delay treatment. To challenge misconceptions, we curated findings with

strong evidence base.
Methods: We reviewed studies with more than 2,000 participants or meta-analyses from five or
more studies or 2,000 or more participants. We excluded meta-analyses that did not assess
publication bias, except for meta-analyses of prevalence. For network meta-analyses we required
comparison adjusted funnel plots. We excluded treatment studies with waiting-list or treatment as
usual controls. From this literature, we extracted evidence-based assertions about the disorder.
Results: We generated 208 empirically supported statements about ADHD. The status of the
included statements as empirically supported is approved by 80 authors from 27 countries and 6
continents. The contents of the manuscript are endorsed by 403 people who have read this
document and agree with its contents.
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Conclusions: Many findings in ADHD are supported by meta-analysis. These allow for firm
statements about the nature, course, outcome causes, and treatments for disorders that are useful
for reducing misconceptions and stigma.
Keywords
ADHD; diagnosis; treatment; course; outcome; genetics; brain
Introduction
Nearly two decades ago, an international team of scientists published the first International
Consensus Statement on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Barkley, 2002).
They sought to present the wealth of scientific data attesting to the validity of ADHD as a
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mental disorder and to correct misconceptions about the disorder that stigmatized affected
people, reduced the credibility of health care providers, and prevented or delayed treatment
of individuals challenged by the disorder (DosReis et al., 2010; Horton-Salway, 2013;
McLeod et al., 2007; Mueller et al., 2012).
This paper updates the International Consensus Statement by cataloging important scientific
discoveries from the last 20 years. We do not intend to present an encyclopedia of ADHD or
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Corresponding Author: Stephen V. Faraone, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Institute for
Human Performance, Room 3707, 505 Irving Ave. Syracuse, NY 13210, sfaraone@childpsychresearch.org.
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guidelines for diagnosis and treatment. The latter can be found in the references cited. Our
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aim is to provide current and accurate information about ADHD supported by a substantial
and rigorous body of evidence.
Methods
We identified evidence-based statements about ADHD through expert scrutiny of published
high quality meta-analyses and very large studies. Expert scrutiny was provided by a project
Steering Committee (Supplemental Table 1) which included representatives from the
following professional groups dedicated to research and clinical care of ADHD: The World
Federation of ADHD, EUropean NETwork for Hyperkinetic DIsorderS (Eunethydis), the
American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders, the Canadian ADHD
Resource Alliance, the Asian Federation of ADHD, the Latin American League of ADHD,
the Australian ADHD Professionals Association, the Israeli Society of ADHD, the Saudi
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ADHD Society, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across Lifespan section of the European

Psychiatric Association, the ADHD Guidelines Group of the Association of Medical
Scientific Societies in Germany, the ADHD Network of European College of
Neuropsychopharmacology, the Chinese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the
ADHD Section of the World Psychiatric Association.
For large cohort studies, we searched PubMed with these search criteria: ADHD [tiab] AND
(nationwide [tiab] OR national [tiab] OR register [tiab] OR registry [tiab]) NOT review
[Publication Type] NOT meta-analysis [Publication Type]. For meta-analyses, we searched
PubMed with these search criteria: ADHD [All Fields] AND (meta-analysis [Title] OR
meta-analysis [Title] OR meta-analytic [Title] OR systematic review [Title]). We excluded
meta-analyses that did not assess publication bias, except for meta-analyses of prevalence.
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For network meta-analyses we required that comparison adjusted funnel plots be presented.
For treatment studies, we excluded results of meta-analyses including comparisons of
treatments with waiting-list or treatment as usual controls.
Apart from statements about the history of ADHD and its diagnostic criteria, we required
each evidence-based statement to be supported by meta-analyses or by large registry studies
with more than 2,000 participants. We required meta-analyses to report data from five or
more studies or 2,000 or more participants.
We describe the magnitude of effect size findings using standard criteria as follows:
standardized mean difference: small = 0.20, medium = 0.50, large = 0.80; correlation
coefficient: small = 0.10, medium = 0.24, large = 0.37 (Ellis, 2010; Rosenthal and Rosnow,
1984). “Moderate” is used as a synonym for “medium,” and “strong” for “large.” A “small”
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effect is generally difficult to observe in an individual but may be very important for public
health if it concerns a common exposure that affects many children. A “medium” effect is
expected to be noticeable to a careful observer (Cohen, 1988). A “large” effect is generally
relevant to clinical practice at the level of the individual.
If a topic is not included in this document, it does not mean the topic is unimportant; rather,
it means the evidence found was insufficient to allow firm conclusions. This could be
because there were insufficient studies of quality, because no attempt was made to assess
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publication bias, or because the data available did not support the claims made. After the
document was completed, we invited additional colleagues to join as signatories to indicate
their support of the document. In what follows, we use the term “evidence-based” to refer to
evidence that meets the inclusion/exclusion criteria we used in our literature search. We
recognize that other criteria could be applied, such as requiring the absence of severe
heterogeneity in meta-analyses or increasing the numbers of research participants.
Overview of Results
Our search strategy generated 208 empirically supported statements about ADHD. For
details, see the PRISMA diagram in Supplemental Figure 1. The status of the included
statements as empirically supported has been approved by the 80 authors from 27 countries
and 6 continents (Supplemental Figure 2). It has been endorsed by 403 people who have
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read this document and agree with its contents (Supplemental Table 2). Table 1 summarizes
our findings along with the item numbers that support each statement. A limitation of this
consensus statement is that we do not report well-established research findings for which
meta-analyses or very large studies do not exist. The absence of such a study, is not always
an indication of knowledge of absence of an effect.
A Brief History: ADHD is not a New Disorder

The concept of ADHD has a long history, starting with clinical reports from European
countries. The clinical significance of the signs and symptoms of the disorder has been
recognized for over two centuries. Although these early reports did not use the term
“ADHD”, they described children who showed the symptoms and impairments we now
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recognize as ADHD. For a detailed history see (Lange et al., 2010; Taylor, 2011; Weikard,
1799). Here are highlights from the early history of ADHD:
1. 1775: Melchior Adam Weikard, a German physician, wrote the first textbook
description of a disorder with the hallmarks of ADHD.
2. 1798: Alexander Crichton from the Royal College of Physicians (United

Kingdom) described a similar disorder in a medical textbook (Palmer and Finger,
2001).
3. 1845: Heinrich Hoffmann, who later became head of the first psychiatric hospital
in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, described hyperactivity and attention deficits in
a children’s book which documented ADHD-like behaviors and their associated
impairments (Hoffmann, 1990).
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4. 1887–1901: Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, Charles Boulanger, Georges Paul-

Boncour, and Jean Philippe described an equivalent of ADHD in French medical
and educational writings (Martinez-Badia and Martinez-Raga, 2015).
5. 1902: George Still, a physician in the United Kingdom, wrote the first
description of the disorder in a scientific journal (Still, 1902a; Still, 1902b, c).
6. 1907: Augusto Vidal Perera wrote the first Spanish compendium of child
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psychiatry. He described the impact of inattention and hyperactivity among

schoolchildren (Vidal Perera, 1907).
7. 1917: the Spanish neurologist and psychiatrist Gonzalo Rodriguez-Lafora

described symptoms of ADHD in children and said they were probably caused
by a brain disorder with genetic origins (Lafora, 1917).
8. 1932: Franz Kramer and Hans Pollnow, from Germany, described an ADHD-like
syndrome and coined the term “hyperkinetic disorder”, which was later adopted
as a term by the World Health Organization (Kramer and Pollnow, 1932;
Neumarker, 2005).
9. 1937: Charles Bradley, from the USA, discovered that an amphetamine

medication reduced ADHD-like symptoms (Bradley, 1937).
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10. 1940s: ADHD-like symptoms in children described as “minimal brain

dysfunction”.
11. 1956–1958: First hint in follow-up study of the persistence of minimal brain
dysfunction-related behaviors into adulthood (Morris et al., 1956; O’Neal and
Robins, 1958)
12. 1960s: U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved methylphenidate (Ritalin)
for behavioral disorders in children.
13. 1970s to today: Diagnostic criteria for ADHD evolved based on research
showing that the diagnosis predicts treatment response, clinical course, and
family history of the disorder.
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How is ADHD diagnosed?

ADHD can only be diagnosed by a licensed clinician who interviews the parent or caregiver
and/or patient to document criteria for the disorder (American Psychiatric Association,
2013; Chinese Society of Psychiatry, 2001; Faraone et al., 2015; Feldman and Reiff, 2014;
Pearl et al., 2001; Stein, 2008; World Health Organization, 2018). It cannot be diagnosed by
rating scales alone, neuropsychological tests, or methods for imaging the brain.
The diagnosis of ADHD has been criticized as being subjective because it is not based on a
biological test. This criticism is unfounded. ADHD meets standard criteria for validity of a
mental disorder established by Robins and Guze (Faraone, 2005; 1970). The disorder is
considered valid because: 1) well-trained professionals in a variety of settings and cultures
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agree on its presence or absence using well-defined criteria and 2) the diagnosis is useful for
predicting a) additional problems the patient may have (e.g., difficulties learning in school);
b) future patient outcomes (e.g., risk for future drug abuse); c) response to treatment (e.g.,
medications and psychological treatments); and d) features that indicate a consistent set of
causes for the disorder (e.g., findings from genetics or brain imaging) (Faraone, 2005).
Professional associations have endorsed and published guidelines for diagnosing ADHD
(Alliance, 2011; Banaschewski T, 2018; Bolea-Alamanac et al., 2014; Crunelle et al., 2018;
Flisher, 2013; Graham et al., 2011; Kooij et al., 2019; National Collaborating Centre for
Mental Health, 2018; National Institute for Health Care and Excellence, 2018; Pliszka,
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2007; Schoeman and Liebenberg, 2017; Seixas et al., 2012; Taylor et al., 2004; Wolraich et
al., 2011).
The main features of the diagnosis are:
14. The diagnosis requires: 1) the presence of developmentally inappropriate levels

of hyperactive-impulsive and/or inattentive symptoms for at least 6 months; 2)
symptoms occurring in different settings (e.g., home and school); 3) symptoms
that cause impairments in living; 4) some of the symptoms and impairments first
occurred in early to mid-childhood; and 4) no other disorder better explains the
symptoms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013; World Health Organization,
2018; Yi and Jing, 2015).
15. The clinical presentation of ADHD can be described as primarily inattentive,

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primarily hyperactive-impulsive, or combined, depending on the nature of their

symptoms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Meta-analyses indicate that
inattention is more strongly associated with academic impairment, low self-
esteem, negative occupational outcomes and lower overall adaptive functioning.
Hyperactive-impulsive symptoms are associated with peer rejection, aggression,
risky driving behaviors and accidental injuries. Patterns of associated disorders
also differ between the dimensions (Willcutt et al., 2012).
16. ADHD impairs the functioning of highly intelligent people, so the disorder can
be diagnosed in this group. A population-based birth cohort study of over 5,700
children found no significant differences among children with high, average, or
low IQ and ADHD in median age at which ADHD criteria were met, rates of
learning disorders, psychiatric disorders, and substance abuse, and rates of
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stimulant treatment (Katusic et al., 2011; Rommelse et al., 2017).
17. In adolescence and young adulthood, many individuals with a history of

childhood ADHD continue to be impaired by the disorder, although they often
show reduced hyperactivity and impulsivity while retaining symptoms of
inattention (Faraone et al., 2006).
18. Many large epidemiologic and clinical studies show that ADHD often co-occurs
with other psychiatric disorders, especially depression, bipolar disorder, autism
spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct
disorder, eating disorders, and substance use disorders (Bernardi et al., 2012;
Chen et al., 2018c; Groenman et al., 2017; Nazar et al., 2016; Solberg et al.,
2018; Tung et al., 2016; Yao et al., 2019). Their presence does not rule out a
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diagnosis of ADHD.
19. A meta-analysis comprising 25 studies with over eight million participants found
that children and adolescents who are relatively younger than their classmates are
more likely to have been diagnosed with ADHD (Caye et al., 2020)
How Common is ADHD?

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ADHD occurs throughout the developed and developing world and is more common in
males compared with females. It has not become more common over the past three decades
although due to increased recognition by clinicians, the disorder is more likely to be
diagnosed today than in prior decades.
20. A meta-analysis of 19 studies with over 55,000 participants found that 5.9% of
youths meet diagnostic criteria for ADHD (Willcutt, 2012). Another meta-
analysis, with 135 studies and about a quarter of a million youths, found no
significant differences in prevalence between North America and Europe, Asia,
Africa, South America, and Oceania (Polanczyk et al., 2014).
21. The latter meta-analysis found no increase in the prevalence of ADHD in

children and adolescents over the past three decades (Polanczyk et al., 2014).
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Although the prevalence of ADHD has not changed in this time period, large
studies from the US and Sweden indicate that ADHD is more likely to have been
diagnosed in recent years, which reflects changes in administrative and clinical
practices (Rydell et al., 2018; Song et al., 2019; Xu et al., 2018).
22. A meta-analysis of six studies with over 5,300 participants estimated the
prevalence of ADHD in adulthood to be 2.5% (Simon et al., 2009). A meta-
analysis of 20 studies encompassing 13 countries and seven regions/metropolitan
areas, involving more than 26,000 participants, estimated that 2.8% of adults
meet criteria for ADHD (Fayyad et al., 2017). The lower prevalence in adults
compared with youth is consistent with a meta-analysis of 21 studies with over
1,600 participants showing that only about one in six youths with ADHD still
meet full diagnostic criteria for ADHD at age 25, and about half show signs of
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residual impairment (Faraone et al., 2006).
23. A meta-analysis of nine studies with a total of over 32,000 older adults found a
prevalence of 2.2% based on ADHD rating scales, dropping to 1.5% when
limited to persons at least fifty years old. Yet a meta-analysis of seven studies
with over 11.7 million participants based on ADHD clinical diagnoses,
performed by the same team, reported a prevalence of only 0.2% for persons at
least fifty years old. A third meta-analysis performed by the same researchers, of
four studies with over 9.2 million participants, found an ADHD treatment rate of
only 0.02% among persons at least fifty years old (Dobrosavljevic et al., 2020).
24. A meta-analysis of 19 studies encompassing over 150,000 U.S. Black youths

under 18 years old reported an ADHD prevalence rate of 14 percent. The authors
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concluded, “Black individuals are at higher risk for ADHD diagnoses than the
general US population. These results highlight a need to increase ADHD
assessment and monitoring among Black individuals from different social
backgrounds” (Cénat et al., 2020).
25. ADHD is more common in males. A meta-analysis of parent ratings of

symptoms in 29 studies with over 42,000 participants, and teacher ratings in 24
studies with over 56,000 participants, found a roughly two-to-one male/female

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ratio in youth (Willcutt, 2012).
What causes ADHD?

For most people with ADHD, many genetic and environmental risk factors accumulate to
cause the disorder (Faraone et al., 2015). The environmental risks for ADHD exert their
effects very early in life, during the fetal or early postnatal period. In rare cases, however,
ADHD-like symptoms can be caused by extreme deprivation early in life (Kennedy et al.,
2016), a single genetic abnormality (Faraone and Larsson, 2018), or traumatic brain injury
early in life (Stojanovski et al., 2019). These findings are helpful to understand the causes of
ADHD but are not useful for diagnosing the disorder. The associations between aspects of
the environment and the onset of ADHD have attained a very high level of evidential
support. Some have strong evidence for a causal role but, for most, the possibility remains
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that these associations are due to correlated genetic and environmental effects. For this
reason, we refer to features of the pre- and post-natal environments that increase risk for
ADHD as correlates, rather than causes. The genetic and environmental risks described
below are not necessarily specific to ADHD.
Genetic Causes of ADHD

26. A review of 37 twin studies from the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, and
Australia found that genes and their interaction with the environment must play a
substantial role in causing ADHD (Faraone and Larsson, 2018; Larsson et al.,
2014a; Pettersson et al., 2019).
27. In a genomewide study, an international team analyzed DNA from over 20,000
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people with ADHD and over 35,000 without ADHD from the United States,
Europe, Scandinavia, China, and Australia. They identified many genetic risk
variants, each having a small effect on the risk for the disorder (Demontis et al.,
2019). This study confirmed a polygenic cause for most cases of ADHD,
meaning that many genetic variants, each having a very small effect, combine to
increase risk for the disorder. The polygenic risk for ADHD is associated with
general psychopathology (Brikell et al., 2020) and several psychiatric disorders
(Lee PH, 2019).
28. Additional genes have been implicated by meta-analyses, but their status as risk
genes remains uncertain until validated in a genomewide study. These genes are
ANKK1 (Pan et al., 2015) DAT1 (Grunblatt et al., 2019b), LRP5 and LRP6
(Grunblatt et al., 2019a), SNAP25 (Liu et al., 2017b), ADGRL3 (Bruxel et al.,
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2020) DRD4 and BAIAP2 (Bonvicini et al., 2020; Bonvicini et al., 2016).
29. The polygenic risk for ADHD predicts ADHD symptoms in the population
suggesting that the genetic causes of ADHD as a disorder, also influence lower
levels of ADHD symptoms in the population (Demontis et al., 2019; Taylor et
al., 2019).
30. In the population, those with a high polygenic risk for ADHD are more likely to
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have been diagnosed with ADHD (Li, 2019), anxiety or depression (Martin et al.,
2018).
31. ADHD can also be the result of rare single gene defects (Faraone and Larsson,
2018) or abnormalities of the chromosomes (Cederlof et al., 2014). When the
DNA of 8,000+ children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or ADHD
and 5,000 controls was analyzed, those with ASD and those with ADHD had an
increased rate of rare genetic mutations compared with controls (Satterstrom et
al., 2019).
32. Family, twin, and DNA studies show that genetic and environmental influences
are partially shared between ADHD and many other psychiatric disorders (e.g.
schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, conduct
disorder, eating disorders, and substance use disorders) and with somatic
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disorders (e.g. migraine and obesity) (Demontis et al., 2019) (Faraone and
Larsson, 2018) (Ghirardi et al., 2018) (Lee et al., 2019) (Lee et al., 2013) (Anttila
et al., 2018; Tylee et al., 2018) (van Hulzen et al., 2017) (Vink and Schellekens,
2018) (Brikell et al., 2018) (Chen et al., 2019a) (Yao et al., 2019). However,
there is also a unique genetic risk for ADHD. Evidence of shared genetic and
environmental risks among disorders suggest that these disorders also share a
pathophysiology in the biological pathways that dysregulate neurodevelopment
and create brain variations leading to disorder onset.
33. Very large studies of families suggest that ADHD shares genetic or familial
causes with autoimmune diseases (Li et al., 2019), hypospadias (Butwicka et al.,
2015), and intellectual disability (Faraone and Larsson, 2018).
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Environmental Correlates of ADHD: Exposure to Toxicants

34. A pair of meta-analyses found small correlations between lead burden and
inattention symptoms (27 studies, over 9,300 youths) and hyperactivity-
impulsivity symptoms (23 studies, over 7,800 youths) (Goodlad et al., 2013). A
more recent meta-analysis of 14 studies with over 17,000 children reported that
higher blood lead levels were associated with quadrupled odds of ADHD (Nilsen
and Tulve, 2020). A study of over 2,500 youths from the National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey, a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample
of the U.S. population, found that those with blood lead levels in the top third
were 2.3 times more likely to have ADHD compared with those in the bottom
third (Froehlich et al., 2009). A similar study, with over 4,700 youths from the
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same national survey, found that those with blood lead levels in the highest fifth
were four times more likely to have ADHD compared with those in the bottom
fifth (Braun et al., 2006).
35. Three meta-analyses with over twenty studies covering more than three million
persons have found prenatal exposure to maternal smoking associated with a
greater than 50% increase in incidence of ADHD (Huang et al., 2017) (Dong et
al., 2018; Nilsen and Tulve, 2020). Although this association has also been seen
in large population studies (Joelsson et al., 2016; Obel et al., 2016; Skoglund et
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al., 2014), it disappears after adjusting for family history of ADHD which
indicates that the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and
ADHD is due to familial or genetic factors that increase the risk for both
smoking and ADHD.
36. A meta-analysis of nine studies spanning three continents and over 100,000
participants found that childhood exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke was
associated with a 60% greater likelihood of ADHD. It was unclear to what extent
the association was causal versus due to confounders (Huang et al., 2020).
37. In a meta-analysis of 15 double-blind, placebo-controlled trials with 219

participants, artificial food dyes were associated with a small increase in
hyperactivity in children (Schab and Trinh, 2004). Another meta-analysis,
covering 20 studies with a combined total of 794 individuals, found a very small
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increase in ADHD symptoms, but only when rated by parents, not by teachers or
other observers (Nigg et al., 2012).
38. In a Taiwanese study of over 10,000 births, maternal use of acetaminophen

during pregnancy was associated with a 33% greater likelihood of ADHD in
their children (Chen et al., 2019b). Another study, examining 113,000 offspring
from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study and the Norwegian Patient
Registry, including 2,246 with ADHD, found a dose-response relationship
between maternal prenatal use of acetaminophen and ADHD (Ystrom et al.,
2017).
39. A nationwide study using the Danish national registers looked at 913,000
children born between 1997 and 2011. Prenatal exposure to the anti-epileptic
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drug valproate was associated with a 50% greater risk of ADHD. No associations
were found for other anti-epileptic drugs (Christensen et al., 2019).
40. In a Norwegian registry study, 297 children with ADHD and 553 controls were
randomly sampled from an eligible population of over 24,000. Children of
mothers in the highest quintile of phthalate metabolite levels were three times
more likely to have had ADHD as children compared with those in the bottom
quintile, after adjusting for confounders, such as maternal age at delivery, sex of
the child, maternal education, marital status, and prenatal maternal smoking
(Engel et al., 2018).
41. Organophosphate pesticides are potent neurotoxins. In a sample of 1,139

children from the U.S. population, a tenfold increase in the organophosphate
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metabolite dimethyl alkylphosphate (DMAP) was associated with 55% increase

in the probability of having ADHD. Children with detectable levels of the most-
commonly detected DMAP metabolite were twice as likely to have ADHD
compared with those with undetectable levels (Bouchard et al., 2010).
42. A meta-analysis found no significant effect of three classes of air pollutants –

particulate matter (six studies, over 51,000 persons) and nitrogen oxides (five
studies, over 51,000 persons) (Zhang et al., 2020b). A Taiwan-wide longitudinal
cohort study geolinking over 16,000 mother-infant pairs to levels of air pollutants
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found no association between small particulate matter levels, sulphur dioxide

levels, or nitrogen dioxide levels during gestation and ADHD diagnoses in the
first eight years of their offsprings’ lives. It did find a 25 percent greater odds for
having ADHD with exposures to nitric oxide, a common traffic pollutant (Shih et
al., 2020).
43. A nationwide cohort study used the South Korean national health insurance
registry to identify all 7,200 hospital admissions of adolescents with a primary
diagnosis of ADHD from 2013 to 2015, and daily readings of three air pollutants
from 318 monitoring stations distributed across the country over the same period.
It found that spikes in nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and particulate matter
were associated, respectively, with 47%, 27%, and 12% increases in ADHD
related hospital admissions in succeeding days. There were no significant
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differences between male and female adolescents, or between older and younger
adolescents (Park et al., 2020).
44. A meta-analysis of nine European population studies encompassing 4,826

mother-child pairs examined the relationship between exposure to Perfluoroalkyl
Substances (PFAS) via breast milk in infancy and development of ADHD. No
associations were found with ADHD in offspring (Forns et al., 2020).
45. A meta-analysis of seven studies encompassing a total of over 25,000

participants from six countries on three continents found no evidence of an
association between sugar consumption and ADHD in youth (Farsad-Naeimi et
al., 2020)
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Environmental Correlates of ADHD: Nutrient Deficiencies

46. A pair of meta-analyses found no difference in serum iron levels in youths with
ADHD (six studies, 617 participants) but small-to-moderate reductions in serum
ferritin, a protein that stores iron (ten studies, over 2,100 participants) (Wang et
al., 2017). Another pair of meta-analyses likewise found no difference in serum
iron levels (six studies, over 1,700 participants) but small-to-moderate reductions
in serum ferritin (12 studies, over 6,000 participants) (Tseng et al., 2018).
47. A meta-analysis of nine studies and 586 people found moderately lower overall
blood levels of omega-3 PUFAs in ADHD than non-ADHD youth (Hawkey and
Nigg, 2014).
48. A nationwide population-based case-control study using the Finnish national

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registers compared 1,067 patients with ADHD born between 1998 and 1999 with
1,067 matched controls. Lower maternal vitamin D levels were associated with a
roughly 50% greater likelihood of ADHD in their children (Sucksdorff et al.,
2019).
Environmental Correlates of ADHD: Events During Pregnancy and Birth

49. A meta-analysis of twelve studies with over 6,000 participants found a threefold
increase in the rate of ADHD among very/extremely preterm or very/extremely
low birth weight babies (Franz et al., 2018). Another meta-analysis, combining
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85 studies with a total of over 4.6 million births, found a small-to-moderate

correlation between low birth weight and ADHD (Momany et al., 2018). A
Swedish national register study of 1.2 million children found a stepwise increase
in the likelihood of ADHD with increasing prematurity. Results were not due to
having an ADHD relative or socioeconomic stress (Lindstrom et al., 2011).
Similar results were reported from the Finnish national registers when comparing
over 10,000 people with ADHD with over 38,000 controls (Sucksdorff et al.,
2015).
50. A meta-analysis of six studies combining 1.4 million people found that children
whose mothers had hypertensive disorders during pregnancy had a 25% increase
in the rate of ADHD (Maher et al., 2018).
51. A nationwide population-based cohort study using Swedish registers and

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covering more than two million children, 115,000 of them with ADHD, found
that maternal preeclampsia during pregnancy is associated with a 15% greater
subsequent likelihood of ADHD in offspring, rising to over 40% when the fetus
is small for gestational age and exposed to preeclampsia. This pattern in families
showed that it is not due to genetic or other family influences (Maher et al.,
2020).
52. Two meta-analyses, one with seven studies with over 28,000 participants and
another with three studies and over 1.4 million participants, found that children
of obese mothers were roughly 60% more likely to develop ADHD (Jenabi et al.,
2019; Sanchez et al., 2018). A study of over 80,000 mother-child pairs
participating in the Danish National Birth Cohort reported an almost 50%
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elevated risk of ADHD in children of obese mothers and a doubled risk in

children of severely obese mothers (Andersen et al., 2018).
53. A meta-analysis of two large cohort studies with a combined total of over 3.1
million persons found a slight but significant association between maternal
hyperthyroidism during pregnancy and ADHD in offspring. A second meta-
analysis of four cohort studies encompassing over 3.4 million participants
likewise found a slight but significant association between maternal
hypothyroidism and ADHD in offspring. No attempt was made to assess the role
of confounders (Ge et al., 2020).
54. A nationwide cohort study using Danish national registers examined over a
million births, comparing offspring of mothers with a single prior miscarriage
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and mothers with more than one prior miscarriage with mothers with no history
of miscarriage. It found that after adjusting for a wide range of possible
confounders which turned out to have little effect, children of mothers with a
single prior miscarriage were 9% more likely to develop ADHD than those of
mothers without any miscarriage. Children of mothers with two or more prior
miscarriages were 22% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. This upward
exposure-response trend was statistically significant (Wang et al., 2020).
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55. A Taiwan-wide longitudinal cohort study based on the country’s universal

coverage National Health Insurance Research Database compared over 14,000
enterovirus patients (ER71) with an equal number of controls matched by age
and sex. After further adjusting for paternal occupation and urbanization level of
residence it found the enterovirus patients were 25 percent more likely to
subsequently be diagnosed with ADHD (Tseng et al., 2020).
56. A nationwide population-based cohort study using Danish registers compared

over 29,000 children born to women who lost a close relative during pregnancy
with a million other children in the same cohort and found that boys born to
these women were twice as likely to have ADHD (Li et al., 2010).
57. A U.S. population-based study of over 14,000 participants in the National

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Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that after adjusting for

demographic, socioeconomic, and familial risk factors for child maltreatment,
ADHD inattentive type was associated with having been exposed to sexual abuse
and physical neglect (Ouyang et al., 2008).
58. A nationwide population-based cohort study of over 18,000 children from the
South Korean National Health Insurance database found that lower levels of
family income were associated with increased rates of ADHD (Choi et al., 2017).
A Swedish study of over 800,000 people reported similar results even after
adjusting for shared familial/genetic risk factors in families (Larsson et al.,
2014b).
59. A Danish national register longitudinal cohort study of a million people found
that Rutter’s indicators of adversity were predictive of ADHD. Out-of-home care
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was strongly predictive; low social class, paternal criminality, maternal mental
disorder, and severe marital discord were moderately predictive. Large family
size had no effect (Ostergaard et al., 2016).
60. A countrywide population study using Danish national registers looked at over
630,000 youths and found dose-response relationships between lower parental
educational attainment, parental unemployment, and parental relative poverty
and higher risk of ADHD in offspring. Combinations of social disadvantages had
cumulative risks. For instance, parental relative income poverty plus completion
of no more than compulsory education plus unemployment was associated with a
roughly five percent higher risk of ADHD in their offspring (Keilow et al., 2020).
61. A Swedish national register cohort study of over 540,000 people found a dose-
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response relationship between cumulative indicators of adversity in the family

and ADHD. A death in the family increased the subsequent likelihood of ADHD
by 60%. Substantial parental substance abuse, criminality, or psychiatric disorder
each more than doubled the likelihood as did residential instability and
household public assistance (Bjorkenstam et al., 2018).
62. In a sample of 4,122 U.S. youths with ADHD from the 2016 U.S. National
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Survey of Children’s Health, greater family cohesion and community support

decreased the risk for moderate to severe ADHD (Duh-Leong et al., 2020).
What Have We Learned from Studying the Brains of People with ADHD?
There are two broad classes of research findings about the brains of people with ADHD. The
first comes from studies of the performance of patients on psychological tests that study
mental processes. The second comes from methods that directly examine brain structure or
function with neuroimaging scans. Although many of these studies have found differences
between groups of people who are and are not diagnosed with ADHD, the differences are
typically small and do not dramatically differ between people with ADHD and those with
other disorders. They are, therefore, not useful for diagnosing the disorder (Thome et al.,
2012). These differences are not caused by drug treatment and, for some patients, diminish
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or change as patients grow out of the disorder.
Performance Deficits in Psychological Processes

63. A meta-analysis of 137 studies with over 9,400 participants of all ages found
ADHD to be associated with moderately lower IQ and reading scores and larger
decreases in spelling and arithmetic scores (Frazier et al., 2004). Another meta-
analysis, spanning 21 studies with over 1,900 adults, concluded that ADHD-
associated IQ deficits were small and not clinically meaningful (Bridgett and
Walker, 2006).
64. A series of meta-analyses found that people with ADHD had small to moderate
difficulties with abstract problem solving and working memory (12 studies, 952
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persons), focused attention (22 studies, 1,493 persons), sustained attention (13
studies, 963 persons), and verbal memory (8 studies, 546 persons) (Schoechlin
and Engel, 2005). Another meta-analysis, with 11 studies with 829 participants,
reported people with ADHD were moderately more prone to cognitive errors
known as “rule violations” (Patros et al., 2019).
65. Two meta-analyses, one with 21 studies and over 3,900 participants, the other
with 15 studies with over a thousand participants, found that those diagnosed
with ADHD have a moderate tendency to favor small immediate rewards over
large delayed rewards (Jackson and MacKillop, 2016; Marx et al., 2018).
66. A meta-analysis of 37 studies with more than 2,300 participants found a small-
to-moderate association between ADHD and risky decision-making (Dekkers et
al., 2016). Another meta-analysis, combining 22 studies with 3,850 children and
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adolescents, found those with ADHD exhibited moderately greater impulsive

decision-making overall on delay discounting and delay of gratification tasks
(Patros et al., 2016).
67. A recent meta-meta-analysis included 34 meta-analyses of neurocognitive

profiles in ADHD (all ages) concerning 12 neurocognitive domains. Those with
ADHD had moderate impairments in multiple domains (working memory,
reaction time variability, response inhibition, intelligence/achievement, planning/

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organization). Effects were larger in children and adolescents than in adults

(Pievsky and McGrath, 2018).
68. A meta-analysis of 49 studies and over 8,200 children and adolescents found
moderate impairments in working memory in those with ADHD. These deficits
declined with age (Ramos et al., 2020).
69. Among youths with ADHD, a series of meta-analyses found no significant sex
differences in either total ADHD symptoms (15, studies, over 3,400 youths),
inattention symptoms (26 studies, over 5,900 youths), or hyperactivity-
impulsivity symptoms (24 studies, over 4,900 youths) (Loyer Carbonneau et al.,
2020).
70. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with preschoolers found

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that cognitive training led to moderate improvement in working memory (23

studies, over 2,000 participants) and small-to-moderate improvement in
inhibitory control (26 studies, over 2,200 participants) (Pauli-Pott et al., 2020).
Differences in the Brain Found by Neuroimaging Studies

71. An analysis of structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 36
cohorts with a total of over 4,100 participants found slightly reduced total
cortical surface area in children with ADHD. The same team found some
subcortical regions of the brain were smaller in children with ADHD, mainly in
frontal, cingulate and temporal regions with some reductions in cortical thickness
in temporal regions. The same team found some subcortical regions of the brain,
i.e., basal ganglia, amygdala, hippocampus and intracranial volumes were
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smaller in children with ADHD in 23 cohorts of 3,242 participants. The

differences seen in children were not seen in adolescents or adults (Hoogman et
al., 2017; Hoogman et al., 2019). All of the differences observed were small to
very small and subtle.
72. Comparative meta-analyses show that structural grey matter volume reductions
in basal ganglia and insula are disorder-specific relative to OCD in 30 data sets
with 1,870 participants (Norman et al., 2016) while medial frontal reductions
were specific to ASD in 66 data sets with 3,610 participants (Lukito et al., 2020).
An analysis of structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 48
cohorts with a total of over 12,000 participants showed that ADHD participants
had smaller hippocampus volume relative to OCD which was related to IQ
differences and smaller intracranial volume relative to ASD and OCD patients
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(Boedhoe et al., 2020). The functional under-activations in right inferior frontal

cortex and basal ganglia during tasks of cognitive control were disorder-specific
relative to OCD in 1,870 participants (Norman et al., 2016), while the inferior
frontal dysfunction was specific relative to autism in 3,610 participants (Lukito et
al., 2020).
73. A meta-analysis of ten diffusion tensor imaging studies with 947 participants
found that the most consistent white matter differences between those with and
without ADHD were located in the splenium of the corpus callosum extending to
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the right cingulum, the right sagittal stratum, and left tapetum, suggesting
problems with the connections between the two hemispheres in posterior parieto-
temporal attention regions and in long-range fronto-posterior association tracts
(connecting inferior frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital regions) involved in
attention and perception (Chen et al., 2016).
74. A meta-analysis of 21 functional MRI studies with 607 participants found that
those with ADHD showed consistent and replicable under-activation in typical
regions of inhibitory control such as right inferior frontal cortex, supplementary
motor area and the basal ganglia relative to typically developing individuals
(Hart et al., 2013). The inferior frontal under-activation findings were replicated
in two further fMRI meta-analyses of inhibitory control with 33 datasets/1,161
participants, and 42 datasets/2,005 participants, respectively (Lukito et al., 2020;
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Norman et al., 2016). Another meta-analysis including 130 fMRI studies with
1,914 participants found no convergence except for aberrant function in basal
ganglia for neutral fMRI tasks and inferior frontal under-function in males only
(Samea et al., 2019).
75. A meta-analysis of nine studies with over 1,250 research participants found that
elevations in the theta/beta on the electroencephalogram cannot be considered a
reliable diagnostic measure for ADHD although it may have prognostic value in
some patients (Arns et al., 2013).
76. A meta-analysis of six studies with 148 participants examined mismatch

negativity, which assesses the integrity of auditory sensory memory and
involuntary attention switching. It reported that ADHD children had small-to-
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moderate reductions in mismatch negativity amplitude compared with healthy

controls (Cheng et al., 2016).
77. Meta-analyses and systematic reviews showed that the medications used to treat
ADHD are not associated with observed deficits in brain structure (Hoogman et
al., 2017; Hoogman et al., 2019; Lukito et al., 2020; Norman et al., 2016;
Spencer et al., 2013), but with improved brain function, most prominently in
inferior frontal and striatal regions (Hart et al., 2013; Lukito et al., 2020; Norman
et al., 2016; Rubia et al., 2014; Spencer et al., 2013).
What kinds of Non-Psychiatric Medical Problems Commonly Occur among

People with ADHD?
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A relatively new area of research into ADHD is examining what types of medical problems
are more common than expected among people with ADHD. As you read this section, keep
in mind that not all people with ADHD will suffer from all, or even only one, of these
disorders.
Obesity
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78. A Swedish national register study of over 2.5 million people found ADHD
patients had a threefold greater risk of obesity relative to their non-ADHD
siblings and cousins. It also found a familial co-aggregation of ADHD and
clinical obesity, the strength of which varied directly with the degree of genetic
relatedness (Chen et al., 2018c).
79. A meta-analysis found that compared with typically developing people, children
and adolescents with unmedicated ADHD were about 20% more likely to be
overweight or obese (15 studies, over 400,000 participants), and adults with
unmedicated ADHD almost 50% more likely to be overweight or obese (9
studies, over 45,000 participants) (Nigg et al., 2016). Meta-analyses of twelve
studies with over 180,000 participants found that people with unmedicated
ADHD were about 40% more likely to be obese, whereas those who were
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medicated were indistinguishable from typically developing people (Cortese et

al., 2016b).
Allergies and Asthma

80. A Swedish national register study of over 1.5 million people found that those
with asthma were 45% more likely to have ADHD even after adjustment for
relevant variables (Cortese et al., 2018b). A cohort study of almost a million
births using the Danish national registers found that children born to asthmatic
mothers were 40% more likely to develop ADHD (Liu et al., 2019b).
81. In a meta-analysis of six longitudinal studies with over 50,000 participants, those
with asthma or atopic eczema were a third more likely to have ADHD than
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controls. A meta-analysis of three studies with over 48,000 participants found

that those with allergic rhinitis were about 50% more likely to have ADHD (van
der Schans et al., 2017).
Diabetes Mellitus:
82. A retrospective analysis of over 650,000 children and adolescents in German
diagnosis and prescription databases found ADHD was 40% more likely to be
diagnosed among children with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) (Kapellen et al., 2016).
83. A German multi-center registry study of over 56,000 children and adolescents
found that those with both ADHD and T1DM suffered twice as often from
diabetic ketoacidosis compared with diabetic patients without ADHD. They also
found significant differences in HbA1c, and concluded, “Pediatric patients with
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ADHD and T1DM showed poor metabolic control compared with T1DM
patients without ADHD” (Hilgard et al., 2017).
84. A longitudinal study using the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research
Database enrolled over 35,000 patients with ADHD and over 70,000 age- and
sex-matched controls. Adolescents and young adults with ADHD were about
three times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes mellitus (Chen et al., 2018b).
85. A cohort study using multiple Swedish national registers looked at over 1.6
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million adults aged 50 to 64 years. Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus was

70% greater among adults with ADHD (Chen et al., 2018c).
86. A meta-analysis found that maternal pre-existing type 1 diabetes was associated
with a small increased risk of ADHD in offspring (4 studies, over five million
people). So was paternal pre-existing type 1 diabetes (3 studies, 4.7 million
people), and maternal pre-existing type 2 diabetes (2 studies, 2.6 million people)
(Zeng et al., 2019). A Swedish study looked at all 15,615 children born after
their parents were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. After controlling for
confounders, it found that these children had a 30% greater chance of being
diagnosed with ADHD (Ji et al., 2018).
Other Somatic Disorders:

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87. A meta-analysis of 18 studies with more than 2,500 children and adolescents
found a moderate association between sleep-disordered breathing and ADHD
(Sedky et al., 2014).
88. A meta-analysis of sleep in adults with ADHD found no significant differences

with normally developing adults, as measured by polysomnography. In four
studies with 178 participants, sleep onset latency, stage 1 sleep, stage 2 sleep,
slow wave sleep, REM, and sleep efficiency were all comparable. Same with
total sleep time (3 studies, 130 persons), and with REM latency and wake after
sleep onset (3 studies, 121 persons). As measured by actigraphy, there were no
significant differences for time in bed and actual wake time (3 studies, 159
persons), true sleep (4 studies, 222 persons). However, sleep onset latency was
much greater for those with ADHD, and sleep efficiency was moderately lower
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(4 studies, 222 persons). Nevertheless, subjective evaluations by those with

ADHD reported moderately greater difficulty in falling asleep (8 studies, over
1,700 persons), moderately greater frequency of night awakenings and
moderately lesser likelihood of being rested at wake-up (5 studies, over 1,100
persons), and moderately worse sleep quality (5 studies, over 800 persons)(Lugo
et al., 2020).
89. In a Norwegian national registry study of over 1.2 million males and over 1.2
million females, males with ADHD were 30% more likely to be diagnosed with
psoriasis, and women with ADHD more than 50% more likely to be diagnosed
with psoriasis, than normally developing controls (Hegvik et al., 2018).
90. A Taiwan nationwide population cohort study of over 8,000 people with ADHD
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and 32,000 matched controls explored associations with autoimmune diseases. It

reported that those with ADHD had well over twice the prevalence of ankylosing
spondylitis, ulcerative colitis, and autoimmune thyroid disease, and over 50%
greater likelihood of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis (Chen et al.,
2017a).
91. A population-based cohort study of over 900,000 Danish children found that
epilepsy was associated with a 2.7-fold increased risk for ADHD (Bertelsen et
al., 2016). Another population-based cohort study, of over 12,000 Taiwanese,

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reported that epilepsy was associated with a 2.5-fold increased risk for ADHD.
Conversely, a linked cohort study of over 18,000 Taiwanese found ADHD was
associated with a fourfold increase in epilepsy (Chou et al., 2013).
92. A countrywide registry study of 1.9 million Swedes reported that those with
epilepsy were three and a half times more likely to have ADHD. The risk of
having ADHD was 85% greater if the person’s mother had epilepsy, 50–60%
greater if the father or a brother or sister did, 15% greater for cousins. Genetics
explained 40% of the variance, with non-shared environmental factors explaining
another 50% (Brikell et al., 2018).
93. A longitudinal study using the Taiwan Health Insurance Research Database
compared almost 18,000 adolescents and young adults with ADHD with over
70,000 age- and sex-matched controls. Those with ADHD were over three times
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more likely to develop sexually transmitted infections, after adjusting for

demographic data, other psychiatric disorders, and ADHD medications (Chen et
al., 2018a).
94. A Danish national register cohort study of 1.1 million people found that
hospitalization for serious infections was associated with a subsequent doubling
in the rate of ADHD diagnosis. Among those treated with anti-infective agents,
the risk of subsequent diagnosis with ADHD was halved (Kohler-Forsberg et al.,
2019).
95. A Danish national register study of almost a million people found that children
with autoimmune disease were 24% more likely to develop ADHD. Maternal
autoimmune disease was associated with a 12% greater likelihood of ADHD in
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their offspring. Paternal autoimmune disease was not associated with any
significant effect (Nielsen et al., 2017).
96. Using Taiwan’s nationwide population-based dataset, over 116,000 children with
ADHD were compared with the same number of randomly selected children
without ADHD. Those with ADHD were much more likely to have significant
abnormalities of the eye: almost 90% more likely to have amblyopia (“lazy
eye”), over 80% more likely to have astigmatism, and twice as likely to have
heterotropia, in which the eyes diverge at rest (Ho et al., 2020). A study using the
same database matched 6,817 youths diagnosed with amblyopia to over 27,000
age- and sex-matched controls. Those in the amblyopia group had 1.8 times the
risk of developing ADHD (Su et al., 2019).
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97. In a study of over 2.5 million German youth, those with ADHD were nine times
more likely to have metabolic disorders, five times more likely to develop viral
pneumonia, four times more likely to have white blood cell disorders, three times
more likely to have kidney failure, high blood pressure, or be obese, two and a
half times more likely to have type 2 diabetes or migraines, twice as likely to
have asthma or atopic dermatitis, and 50% more likely to have glaucoma
(Akmatov et al., 2019). A Brazilian population-based study including 5,671
children found those with migraine about four times more likely to have ADHD
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(Arruda et al., 2020).
98. A study of over 59,000 boys diagnosed with ADHD and over 52,000 healthy
boys in Taiwan reported that those in the ADHD group were twice as likely to
develop testicular dysfunction (Wang et al., 2019).
99. A nationwide population cohort study using the Swedish national registers
compared over 19,000 children with a diagnosis of biopsy-verified celiac disease
with over 95,000 matched child controls. It found a subsequent 29% increased
risk of ADHD in the celiac patients, rising to 39% when restricting to adult
diagnoses of ADHD. However, when comparing 13,000 children diagnosed with
celiac disease to their 18,000 non-celiac siblings, the increases became
nonsignificant, suggesting the increases were primarily attributable to
confounders (Lebwohl et al., 2020).
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100. A Swedish nationwide study using national registers examined medical records
of all individuals aged 18 to 64 years who were residing in Sweden during 2013
and identified 41,840 who filled at least one prescription for ADHD medicines.
Young adults with ADHD were four times more likely to have somatic co-
prescriptions and fifteen times more likely to have psychotropic co-prescriptions
than normally developing controls. For middle-aged adults (30–49) the odds
were six and 21 times greater, respectively, and for older adults, seven and 18
times greater. Respiratory medications (primarily for allergies reactions and
asthma) were the most likely to be dispensed for somatic purposes, followed by
alimentary tract and metabolic medications (most frequently proton pump
inhibitors indicated for gastric/duodenal ulcers and gastroesophageal reflux
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disease), then cardiovascular system medications (primarily for hypertension and

arrhythmias) (Zhang et al., 2020a).
What is the Impact of ADHD on Patients and Families?

ADHD is a disorder associated with serious distress and/or impairments in living. Although,
as documented below, many severe adverse outcomes have been associated with ADHD, the
typical patient does not experience all, or even most, of these problems. Many patients live
enjoyable and productive lives, especially if they receive treatment.
Quality of Life
101. A meta-analysis of seven studies with over 5,000 youths and their parents
reported large impairments in the quality of life of youths with ADHD relative to
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typically developing peers, regardless of whether evaluated by the youths

themselves or by their parents. Physical functioning was only moderately
impaired, but emotional functioning and social functioning was strongly
impaired. School functioning was strongly impaired. As youths with ADHD
grew older, their quality of life compared with typically developing peers grew
worse in physical, emotional, and school domains. (Lee et al., 2016).
102. A meta-analysis of 17 studies encompassing 647 families (over 2,300

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participants) evaluated the quality of life of parents whose children had ADHD
relative to parents with typically developing children. Parents of the former
reported a moderate deficit in quality of life relative to parents of the latter (Dey
et al., 2019).
Emotional and Social Impairment

103. A study of over 8,600 youths from the US National Health Interview Survey
found that those with ADHD were six times as likely to have a high level of
emotional, conduct, and peer problems, and nine times as likely to manifest a
high level of impairment including interference with home life, friendships,
classroom learning, and leisure activities (Strine et al., 2006).
104. A meta-analysis of 22 studies with over 21,000 participants found that youth
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with ADHD were strongly impaired in the ability to modulate their reactivity to
novel or stressful events (Graziano and Garcia, 2016). Another meta-analysis,
combining twelve studies with over 1,900 participants, found that adults with
ADHD had very elevated levels of emotional dysregulation compared with
normally developing controls (Beheshti et al., 2020).
105. A meta-analysis found that children with ADHD had medium-to-large

impairments in socializing with peers as measured by rejection/likability,
popularity, and friendships (61 studies, over 24,000 children). They also had
moderate impairments in social skills such as sharing, cooperating, turn-taking,
reciprocity (68 studies, over 148,000 children), and social-information
processing, such as recognizing social cues, identifying problems, generating
solutions, and avoiding biases (23 studies, over 3,750 children) (Ros and
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Graziano, 2018).
106. A study of over 53,000 U.S. children from the National Survey of Children’s
Health found that those with ADHD were 2.4 times as likely to engage in
bullying (Montes and Halterman, 2007). A more recent study of some 64,000
children using the same database confirmed this finding, reporting that those
with ADHD were 2.8 times more likely to engage in bullying (Benedict et al.,
2015).
Accidental Injuries
107. A nationwide cohort study of over 50,000 youths with ADHD and an equal
number of age-, sex-, and comorbidity-matched controls drawn from Taiwan’s
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National Health Insurance Research Database reported that having ADHD was
associated with a more than three-quarters greater likelihood of burn injury. For
those under six years old, the risk was doubled. For youths between six and
seventeen years old, the increase in risk was about 70 percent. There were no
significant differences between boys and girls (Yeh et al., 2020).
108. A meta-analysis of 32 studies covering more than four million people found that
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those with ADHD had a 40 to 50% greater risk of accidental physical injuries
(Ruiz-Goikoetxea et al., 2018a).
109. A Swedish national registers study followed 17,408 individuals with ADHD
from 2006 to 2009 and found that patients with ADHD had an almost 50%
greater risk of serious transport accidents (Chang et al., 2014b).
110. A U.S. study of over 8,000 high school and collegiate athletes (predominantly
male football players) found that those with ADHD were three times as likely to
have had three or more reported concussions (Nelson et al., 2016).
111. A meta-analysis of 16 studies encompassing over 175,000 people estimated that

controlling for mileage driven, those with ADHD were 23% more likely to be
involved in vehicular crashes (Vaa, 2014).
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112. A retrospective cohort study of over 18,000 New Jersey drivers found that the
crash risk for those with ADHD was a third greater than for those without (Curry
et al., 2017).
113. A meta-analysis of five studies, comprising over three thousand patients with
minor traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and over nine thousand controls found that
those with mTBI were twice as likely to have ADHD than those without mTBI
(Adeyemo et al., 2014).
Premature Death and Suicide

114. A Danish study of almost two million people found ADHD is associated with a
small risk for premature death, mostly due to accidents. When ADHD was
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accompanied by other psychiatric and substance use disorder, the chances of

premature death increased (Dalsgaard et al., 2015b).
115. A cohort study of more than 2.2 million Taiwanese found no increased risk of
death from natural-causes associated with ADHD. But people with ADHD had
twice the rate of suicide, twice the rate of death by homicide, and a 30% greater
rate of death from unintentional injury (Chen et al., 2019c).
116. Using nationwide registers in Denmark, a cohort study of 2.9 million people
reported a fourfold higher rate of suicide attempts and deaths in patients with
ADHD. The risk was over tenfold in those with ADHD plus another psychiatric
diagnosis (Fitzgerald et al., 2019).
117. A meta-analysis found that persons with ADHD attempted suicide at twice the
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rate of typically developing people (six studies, over 65,000 persons), had over
three times the rate of suicidal ideation (23 studies, over 70,000 persons), and
over six times the rate of completed suicide (four studies, over 130,000 persons)
(Septier et al., 2019).
118. A Taiwanese study of over 20,000 adolescents and young adults with ADHD and
over 61,000 age- and sex-matched non-ADHD individuals found that those with
ADHD were almost four times as likely to attempt suicide, and over six times as
likely to repeat suicide attempts. Methylphenidate or atomoxetine treatment did

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not increase the risk of suicide attempts or repeated suicide attempts. Long-term
methylphenidate treatment was associated with a lower risk for repeated suicide
attempts among men (Huang et al., 2018).
119. In a prospective cohort study of more than 2.6 million Swedes, adults with
ADHD had a small increase in premature death, mostly due to accidents and
suicide. There was no significant association for children with ADHD (Sun et al.,
2019b).
Crime and Delinquency

120. A study of the Danish population using nationwide registers found that,
compared with other youth, those diagnosed with ADHD were more than twice
as likely to be convicted of criminal offenses and were three times as likely to be
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incarcerated. After adjusting for other risk factors, those with ADHD were 60%
more likely to have been convicted of a crime, and 70% more likely to have been
incarcerated (Mohr-Jensen et al., 2019).
121. A meta-analysis comprising 21 studies and over 19,500 prison inmates found
that the prevalence of ADHD in prisons based on interview diagnoses was 20.5%
with no differences observed between males and females or adolescents and
adults (Young et al., 2015). Another meta-analysis reported the prevalence of
ADHD among adolescents in juvenile detention to be just over 17%, both for
males (24 studies, over 24,000 individuals) and females (13 studies, over 3,900
individuals), which is much higher than the prevalence in the population
(Beaudry et al., 2020).
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122. A study using a nationally representative American sample of over 5,000 adults
found that those with ADHD were over twice as likely to be perpetrators of
physical dating violence, and 65% more likely to be victims of such violence
(McCauley et al., 2015).
123. In a nationwide study of over 21,000 Icelandic adolescents and young adults,
14% reported having been interrogated at a police station. Of these, 15%
reported making a false confession. Those with ADHD were twice as likely to
make a false confession (Gudjonsson et al., 2016).
124. A study using the Danish national registries looked at violent crimes against
youth aged 7–18 years, among a total of 678,000 individuals. Children with
ADHD were 2.7 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than their
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typically developing peers, after adjusting for confounding risk factors

(Christoffersen, 2019).
Educational Underachievement
125. A study of a U.S. sample of almost 30,000 adults found that those with ADHD
were twice as likely not to have graduated from high school on time, after
adjusting other psychiatric disorders (Breslau et al., 2011).
126. A nationwide cohort study of over 750,000 Scottish school children using linked
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national registers identified those who had been prescribed medicine for ADHD.
Even while receiving medication, these children were more than three times as
likely as typically developing peers to have low educational achievement, more
than twice as likely to drop out of school before age 16, more than eight times as
likely to have a record of special educational needs, 50% more likely to get
injured, 40% more likely to be unemployed. These results were adjusted for
socioeconomic confounders and other psychiatric conditions (Fleming et al.,
2017).
127. 127. A meta-analysis of ten studies and 830 youths found that ADHD was
strongly associated with poorer performance on measures of overall, expressive,
receptive, and pragmatic language (Korrel et al., 2017).
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Substance Use Disorders

128. A meta-analysis of twelve studies covering over 5,400 people found that those
with ADHD were almost three times more likely to be nicotine-dependent.
Combining eleven studies with almost 2,400 participants, those with ADHD
were 50% more likely to develop a drug or alcohol use disorder than those
without ADHD (Lee et al., 2011).
129. A meta-analysis found that ADHD was associated with a more than twofold
greater odds of alcohol-use disorders (13 studies, over 20,000 participants) and
nicotine-related disorder (14 studies, over 1,800 participants) (Groenman et al.,
2017).
130. A Swedish study of over half a million people found a more than threefold
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association between ADHD and subsequent drug use disorders after adjusting for
sex and parental education (Sundquist et al., 2015).
Other
131. Studies of 2.7 million girls from Denmark (Ostergaard et al., 2017), 380,000
from Sweden (Skoglund et al., 2019) and 7,500 from Taiwan (Hua et al., 2020)
found that those with ADHD were more likely to have teen pregnancies than
those without ADHD. Consistent with these results, large studies from Sweden
(Chang et al., 2014a), Finland (Chudal et al., 2015) and a consortium of eight
European countries (Pohlabeln et al., 2017) each found ADHD to be more likely
among children of teenage mothers than among children of older mothers.
132. A study of over 36,000 people from the US reported that ADHD increased the
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risks for problem gambling, spending too much money, reckless driving, and
quitting a job without a plan for what to do next (Bernardi et al., 2012).
133. A nationwide study using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research

Database compared 675 adults with ADHD and 2,025 without ADHD, matched
by age and sex. After adjusting for other psychiatric disorders, urbanization level
of residence, and monthly income, those with ADHD had 3.4 times the risk of
developing dementia (Tzeng et al., 2019).
134. A meta-analysis of nine studies encompassing almost a million and a half people
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found that ADHD is associated with a threefold greater risk of poisoning in

children (Ruiz-Goikoetxea et al., 2018b). In a study from Taiwan comparing
3,685 children with ADHD with 36,000 controls, those with ADHD had a more
than fourfold greater risk of deliberate self-poisoning (Chou et al., 2014).
135. A longitudinal study of some 15,000 U.S. adolescents reported that those with
ADHD had a 12% reduction in employment and a 34% reduction in earnings
relative to non-ADHD siblings (Fletcher, 2014).
136. Using Danish registers, a nationwide population study of over 675,000 youths
between the ages of 7 and 18 found that youths with ADHD were 3.7 times as
likely to be reported as victims of sexual crimes than normally developing
controls. After adjusting for covariates, such as parental violence, parental
inpatient mental illness, parental suicidal behavior or alcohol abuse, parental
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long-term unemployment, family separation, and child in public care outside the
family, youths with ADHD remained almost twice as likely to be reported as
victims of sexual crimes (Christoffersen, 2020).
What is the Economic Burden of ADHD?

Given the many adverse outcomes associated with ADHD, it will come as no surprise to
readers that these effects have a substantial economic cost to individual patients, families,
and society.
137. A systematic review of seven European studies of hundreds of thousands of

participants estimated total ADHD-related costs in the Netherlands as €9,860 to
€14,483 per patient per year, with annual national costs more than €1 billion (Le
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et al., 2014).
138. A review of the costs of child, youth and adult ADHD in Australia estimated the
total annual costs to be over $20 billion Australian dollars, or $25,000 per person
with ADHD. This includes financial costs of $12.8 billion, well-being losses of
$7.6 billion, and productivity losses of $10.2 billion (Australian ADHD
Professionals Association, 2019).
139. A systematic review of 19 U.S. studies of hundreds of thousands of people found

that ADHD was associated with overall national annual costs from $143 to $266
billion, mostly associated with adults ($105 to $194 billion). Costs borne by
family members of people with ADHD ranged from $33 - $43 billion (Doshi et
al., 2012).
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140. A study with over 7,000 workers in ten nations found that those with ADHD had
an average of 22 annual days of lost role performance compared with those
without ADHD (de Graaf et al., 2008).
141. A study of a U.S. national Fortune 100 company’s database of over 100,000
beneficiaries compared healthcare costs for youths with ADHD with matched
controls without ADHD. The annual average cost per family member was $2,728
for non-ADHD family members of ADHD patients, almost double the $1,440 for
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family members of matched controls (Swensen et al., 2003).
142. German health insurance records, including over 25,000 patients with ADHD,
indicate that patients with ADHD cost roughly €1,500 more annually than those
without ADHD. Main cost drivers were inpatient care, psychiatrists, and
psychotherapists. Mood, anxiety, substance use disorders, and obesity were
significantly more frequent in patients with ADHD. The additional costs
resulting from these conditions added as much as €2,800 per patient (Libutzki et
al., 2019).
143. Using the National Health Insurance Service claims data for the population aged
19 years or younger in South Korea (69,353 diagnosed with ADHD), the total
annual economic burden due to ADHD was estimated to be $47.55 million
(Hong et al., 2020).
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144. Using the Danish national registers, over 5,000 adults with a diagnosis of ADHD
in adulthood who had not received a diagnosis in childhood were identified.
Excluding cases with missing data, other psychiatric diagnoses, and cases
without a same-sex sibling free of any diagnosed psychiatric diagnoses, a final
cohort was formed consisting of 460 sibling pairs. On average, adults with
ADHD had an annual economic burden of just over €20,000 compared with their
normally developing siblings (Daley et al., 2019).
145. A nationwide cohort study of over 445,000 people in the Swedish national
registers compared healthcare costs for three groups: those with childhood
ADHD that persisted into adulthood, those whose ADHD remitted in adulthood,
and those who never had ADHD. Those who never had ADHD had average
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annual healthcare costs of €304. Those in remission had double the cost, and
those with persistent ADHD over triple the cost (Du Rietz et al., 2020).
146. A nationwide population study of over 83,000 persons with ADHD and 334,446
non-ADHD controls matched by age and sex used Danish national registries to
calculate the net socioeconomic cost of ADHD. Relative to controls, and
summing net direct health costs and net losses from lower income and
employment, the yearly average cost per individual with ADHD came to just
over €16,000. Including additional social transfers, the total rose to just over
€23,000. For partners of persons with ADHD, the additional yearly average cost
per individual was almost €5,500. With additional social transfers, the total rose
to €8,000 (Jennum et al., 2020).
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147. Using a database that tracks more than sixty German nationwide health insurance
programs, a study of five million member records identified 2,380 individuals
first diagnosed with ADHD as adults. Their direct healthcare costs in the year
following diagnosis averaged €4,000. Despite explicit German guidelines
recommending ADHD medication, only a third were prescribed medication,
dropping to one eighth four years later. Two-thirds received psychotherapy. The
authors concluded that “guideline recommendations are not yet comprehensively

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implemented in everyday routine care” (Libutzki et al., 2020).
Which Medications are Safe and Effective for Treating ADHD?

As determined by governmental regulatory agencies around the world, several medications
are safe and effective for treating ADHD symptoms as determined by randomized controlled
clinical trials that typically study patients for several weeks. These medications, which are as
efficacious, or more efficacious, than many medications used for non-psychiatric disorders
(Leucht et al., 2012), are classified as either stimulants (methylphenidate and amphetamine)
or non-stimulants (atomoxetine, extended release guanfacine, and extended release
clonidine).
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148. Protocols for using medications for ADHD are well described in detailed
guidelines prepared by professional health care associations (Alliance, 2011;
Banaschewski T, 2018; Bolea-Alamanac et al., 2014; Crunelle et al., 2018;
Flisher, 2013; Graham et al., 2011; Kooij et al., 2019; National Collaborating
Centre for Mental Health, 2018; National Institute for Health Care and
Excellence, 2018; Pliszka, 2007; Schoeman and Liebenberg, 2017; Seixas et al.,
2012; Taylor et al., 2004; Wolraich et al., 2011).
149. A network meta-analysis found stimulants to be highly effective in reducing the

symptoms of ADHD. Compared with placebo, as rated by clinicians,
amphetamines were associated with large improvements in all age groups
(youths 6 studies with 2179 participants, adults 5 studies with 1521 participants),
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methylphenidate with large improvements in youths (9 studies, 2677

participants) and moderate ones in adults (11 studies, 2909 participants).
Extended release guanfacine (7 studies, 1930 participants) led to moderate
improvements in children. Atomoxetine led to moderate improvements in all age
groups (youths 21 studies with 3812 participants, adults 11 studies with 3377
participants). Taking side effects into account, the medications with the best
benefit-to-risk ratios were methylphenidate for children and adolescents, and
amphetamines for adults (Cortese et al., 2018a).
150. A meta-analysis of 18 studies with over 2,000 adults with ADHD found three
amphetamine derivatives (dextroamphetamine, lisdexamfetamine, and mixed
amphetamine salts) to be associated with moderate reductions in ADHD
symptoms (Castells et al., 2011). Another meta-analysis, combining four studies
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with 216 youths, found mixed amphetamine salts to be slightly more effective at
reducing ADHD symptoms than methylphenidate (Faraone et al., 2002).
151. A meta-analysis of 19 parallel group trials with over 1,600 participants, found
methylphenidate produced moderate to large improvements in teacher-rated
ADHD symptoms, teacher-rated behavior and parent-rated quality of life. There
was no evidence of serious adverse events, and just a slightly elevated risk of
non-serious side effects (Storebø et al., 2015).
152. A meta-analysis found dexmethylphenidate strongly reduced youth ADHD

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symptoms relative to placebo (seven studies, almost 1,500 participants), and had
three times the clinical response rate (four studies, over 600 participants)
(Maneeton et al., 2015). Another meta-analysis, covering six RCTs with 253
participants, reported that methylphenidate strongly reduced adult ADHD
symptoms, with higher doses resulting in greater improvement (Faraone et al.,
2004).
153. A meta-analysis of seven studies with over 1,600 participants reported that
atomoxetine moderately reduced ADHD symptoms. (Cheng et al., 2007).
154. A meta-analysis found that methylphenidate (13 studies, over 2,200 adults) and
lisdexamfetamine (five studies, over 2,300 adults) led to small-to-moderate
reductions in symptoms of emotional dysregulation; for atomoxetine (three
studies, 237 adults) the reductions were small (Lenzi et al., 2018). Another meta-
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analysis covering nine studies with over 1,300 youths reported atomoxetine to be
associated with small reductions in emotional symptoms (Schwartz and Correll,
2014).
155. A meta-analysis reported moderate-to-strong improvements in ADHD symptoms

with methylphenidate in ADHD patients with borderline intellectual functioning
or intellectual disability (8 studies, 423 children). (Sun et al., 2019a).
156. A meta-analysis of 23 studies with over 2,900 children with ADHD reported that
stimulant medications reduced anxiety by 14% relative to placebo (Coughlin et
al., 2015).
157. A meta-analysis of nine studies with over 1,300 participants found stimulants to
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be highly effective in reducing aggression, oppositional behavior, and conduct

problems in youth with ADHD (with and without oppositional defiant disorder)
and conduct disorder, as measured by teachers, and moderately effective as
measured by parents (Pringsheim et al., 2015).
Effects of Medications on Impairments Associated with ADHD: Results from Naturalistic

Studies
158. A Swedish registry study of over 650,000 students found that treatment with
ADHD medication for three months resulted in a more than nine-point gain in
grade point sum (on a scale of 0 to 320); treatment was associated with an
increase in the probability of completing upper secondary school by two-thirds
(Jangmo et al., 2019).
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159. A Swedish national register study of over 61,000 youths with ADHD found that
their test scores were higher during periods they were taking medication vs non-
medicated periods (Lu et al., 2017). A Danish study of over half a million
children (over 6,400 with ADHD) found that discontinuation of ADHD
medication was associated with a small but significant decline in grade point
averages (Keilow et al., 2018). A meta-analysis of nine RCTs comprising 1,463
patients found that discontinuing medications led to a worsening in quality of life

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for children and adolescents but not adults. (Tsujii et al., 2020)
160. A Swedish cohort study of over 25,000 ADHD patients found a one-third
reduction in criminality among men receiving ADHD medication, and a 40%
reduction for women (Lichtenstein et al., 2012). A Danish national registry study
of over 4,200 individuals with childhood ADHD found that crime rates in
adulthood were 30–40% lower during periods of taking ADHD medication
(Mohr-Jensen et al., 2019).
161. A Danish cohort study of over 700,000 people, including 4,557 with ADHD,
found that among teenagers with ADHD, stimulant treatment was associated
with a decrease in rates of injuries (30% for ten-year olds and 40% for twelve-
year olds) (Dalsgaard et al., 2015a).
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162. Using the Swedish national registries, a study followed 9,421 youths with ADHD
and 2,986 youths with both ADHD and other psychiatric diagnoses from 2006 to
2013. It compared periods when they were taking ADHD medication with
periods when they were not. During medicated periods both groups had a greater
than 10% reduction in unintended injuries, and a greater than 70% reduction in
traumatic brain injuries (Ghirardi et al., 2020).
163. A Taiwanese study of over 124,000 youths with ADHD found that
methylphenidate treatment decreased the risk for traumatic brain injuries, after
adjusting for confounders (Liao et al., 2018).
164. A nationwide study compared 7,200 Taiwanese youths with ADHD with 36,000
children without ADHD. After adjusting by age, sex, urbanization level, and
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geographic region, boys with ADHD were almost 40% more likely and girls with
ADHD 60% more likely to suffer bone fractures (Guo et al., 2016). Another
study from Taiwan identified over 6,200 youths newly diagnosed with ADHD
and assessed the effect of methylphenidate treatment. The risk of bone fractures
was 20% lower in those who had over half a year of methylphenidate treatment
(Chen et al., 2017b).
165. A population-based, electronic medical records database in Hong Kong

identified over 17,000 individuals aged 6–19 years who had been prescribed
methylphenidate. Of these, almost 5,000 had at least one trauma-related
emergency room admission. Researchers found a 9% reduction in such
admissions during periods covered by a methylphenidate prescription compared
with periods with no active prescription (Man et al., 2015).
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166. A meta-analysis of five studies with over 13,000 participants found that ADHD
medications (primarily stimulants) were associated with a greater than 10%
reduction in unintentional injuries (Ruiz-Goikoetxea et al., 2018a).
167. Using Swedish national registers, a study of over 17,000 people with ADHD
found that medication for ADHD was associated with a greater than 50%
reduction in the risk of serious transport accidents among males but not females.
Over 40% of crashes by male patients would have been avoided if they had been
receiving treatment during the entire period (Chang et al., 2014b). A U.S.
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national cohort study of 2.3 million people with ADHD examined emergency
room visits for motor vehicle crashes over ten years. Males with ADHD had a
38% lower risk of crashes in months when receiving ADHD medication
compared with months when not receiving medication, and females a 42% lower
risk in months when receiving ADHD medication. About a fifth of crashes would
have been avoided if they had been on medication throughout the period of the
study (Chang et al., 2017).
168. A longitudinal study using the Taiwan Health Insurance Research Database
compared almost 18,000 adolescent and young adults with ADHD with over
70,000 age- and sex-matched controls. Short-term use of ADHD medications
was associated with a 30% reduction in sexually transmitted infections, and long-
term use with a 40% reduction, though these reductions were only among males
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(Chen et al., 2018a).
169. A nationwide longitudinal cohort study using the Swedish national registers
found that among more than 38,000 individuals with ADHD, ADHD medication
was associated with a greater than 40% reduction in the risk for depression three
years later. The risk decreased with the duration of ADHD medication use.
Depression was 20% less common when patients received ADHD medication
compared with periods when they did not (Chang et al., 2016).
170. A Swedish population-based study of 38,000 people with ADHD found a 20%
decline in suicide related events among those prescribed stimulants during
periods when they were under treatment as opposed to during periods when they
were not under treatment. No such benefit was found for non-stimulant
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medications (Chen et al., 2014).
171. A Taiwanese study identified 85,000 youths with ADHD using National Health
Insurance data to examine whether methylphenidate use affected suicide
attempts. After adjusting for relevant variables, it found a 60% lower risk of
suicide in those using methylphenidate for 3 months to half a year, and a 70%
reduction among those using methylphenidate for more than half a year (Liang et
al., 2018b).
172. A study using the Swedish national registers investigated the association between
prescription stimulant medication for ADHD in 2006 and substance abuse during
2009 among all 38,753 people born between 1960 and 1998 and diagnosed with
ADHD. After controlling for relevant variables, it found a greater than 30%
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reduction in indicators of substance abuse among those prescribed stimulants.

The longer the duration of medication, the lower the rate of substance abuse
(Chang et al., 2014c). A meta-analysis of 14 studies with over 2,300 participants
found that people with ADHD were about half as likely to smoke cigarettes
when regularly treated with stimulant medications (Schoenfelder et al., 2014). A
meta-analysis found that stimulants did not increase the risk for alcohol (11
studies, over 1,300 participants, nicotine (6 studies, 884 participants), cocaine (7
studies, 950 participants), or cannabis abuse or dependence (9 studies, over 1,100

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participants) (Humphreys et al., 2013).
173. A nationwide study of over 7,500 Taiwanese adolescents with ADHD and over
30,000 matched controls found that long-term use of ADHD medication use was
associated with a 30% decrease in teenage pregnancy (Hua et al., 2020).
174. A nationwide population-based cohort using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance

Research Database identified over 68,000 children and adolescents with a
diagnosis of ADHD and who were prescribed methylphenidate and compared
them with an identical number of controls matched on age, gender and year of
first ADHD diagnosis. After controlling for potential confounders, ADHD
individuals prescribed methylphenidate had a one-fifth lower rate of all-cause
mortality than ADHD individuals not prescribed methylphenidate. Delayed use
of methylphenidate, on the other hand, was associated with slightly higher (5%)
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mortality. Long-term methylphenidate use was associated with a one-sixth lower

rate of all-cause mortality. The authors caution, however, that “information
lacking in the database precluded the measurement of other possible
confounders, such as family history, psychosocial stressors, effect of behavioural
therapy or severity of comorbidities,” and thus unmeasured confounding cannot
be excluded (Chen et al., 2020a).
175. A nationwide population-based cohort using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance

Research Database identified over 90,000 individuals younger than 18 years with
a diagnosis of ADHD, and compared risk of burn injury between those not on
methylphenidate, those on methylphenidate for less than 90 days, and this on
methylphenidate for more than 90 days. The data suggested that fully half the
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incidence of burn injuries could have been prevented by taking methylphenidate.

Compared with patients not taking methylphenidate, those taking it for less than
90 days had a 30% lesser risk of burn injuries, and those taking it for 90 days or
more a 57% reduction in risk, after adjusting for confounders (Chen et al.,
2020b).
Effects of Medications for ADHD on the Brain

176. A meta-analysis of methylphenidate treatment for ADHD found moderate
improvements in response inhibition (25 studies, 787 participants) and sustained
attention (29 studies, 956 participants), but no significant effect on working
memory (13 studies, 559 participants) (Tamminga et al., 2016).
177. A meta-analysis of 14 fMRI studies with 212 participants reported that

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medication treatment for ADHD made the brains of youth with ADHD function
in a way that was more like the brains of people without ADHD in brain areas
involved in the control of cognition, which is typically disrupted in ADHD
(Rubia et al., 2014). Medication treatment for ADHD had no effect on brain
structure in studies of 4,180 ADHD patients in the ENIGMA-ADHD Working
Group set of 36 cohorts from around the world (Hoogman et al., 2017; Hoogman
et al., 2019).
Adverse Effects of ADHD Medications

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178. A meta-analysis found that stimulants moderately reduced total sleep time (7
studies, 223 children), delayed the onset of sleep (7 studies, 171 children), and
slightly-to-moderately decreased sleep efficiency (7 studies, 155 children)
(Kidwell et al., 2015). A meta-analysis found that children and adolescents on
methylphenidate were 50% more likely to report abdominal pain (46 studies,
over 4,600 youths) and over three times more likely to experience decreases in
appetite (52 studies, over 4,800 youths) and weight (7 studies, over 850 youths)
(Holmskov et al., 2017). An umbrella review of network meta-analyses and
meta-analyses of RCTs and cohort studies examined 78 adverse events across 19
categories of 80 psychotropic medications in children and adolescents with
mental disorders including data from nine network meta-analyses, 39 meta-
analyses, 90 individual RCTs, and eight cohort studies with a total of 337,686
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children and adolescents included (Solmi et al., 2020). Five medications for
ADHD were associated with significantly worse anorexia (atomoxetine, d-
amphetamine, lisdexamphetamine, methylphenidate, modafinil), four with
insomnia (d-amphetamine, lisdexamphetamine, methylphenidate, modafinil),
three with weight loss (atomoxetine, methylphenidate, modafinil), two each with
abdominal pain (methylphenidate, guanfacine), discontinuation due to adverse
event (lisdexamphetamine, guanfacine), hypertension (atomoxetine,
lisdexamphetamine), and sedation (clonidine, guanfacine), and one with QT
prolongation (guanfacine)..
179. A meta-analysis of twelve studies with over 3,300 adults found that those taking
atomoxetine were about 40% more likely to discontinue treatment due to adverse
events than those on placebo (Cunill et al., 2013). A meta-analysis found that
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methylphenidate was more than twice as likely to induce insomnia as

atomoxetine (10 studies, over 3,000 youths), but about half as likely to cause
nausea (8 studies, over 2,750 youths) and vomiting 97 studies, over 2,500
youths), and about a sixth as likely to cause drowsiness (9 studies, over 2,800
youths) (Liu et al., 2017a). A meta-analysis of methylphenidate treatment studies
reported a 55% increase in adverse events relative to placebo, none life-
threatening (11 studies, over 2,100 youths), but a fivefold increase in anorexia (3
studies, 613 youths), and more than fourfold increase in insomnia (4 studies, 749
youths) (Ching et al., 2019).
180. Children treated with stimulants may show delays in expected height gains
averaging two centimeters over one or two years. These sometimes attenuate
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over time and often reverse when treatment is stopped (Faraone et al., 2008). A
medical records study from the USA comparing 32,999 stimulant-treated ADHD
children with 11,515 controls found continuing declines in expected height over
a four-year period. A study from Germany, however, specifically addressed
whether stimulants predicted patients being very short (i.e., being less than or
equal to the third percentile of the population). After comparing 3,806 boys not
treated with methylphenidate with 118 treated boys, the results did not indicate
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(McCarthy et al., 2018).
181. A study using Danish national registers followed over 700,000 individuals for an
average period of almost a decade. Looking at 8,300 people with ADHD,
stimulant users had more than twice the rate of cardiovascular events (primarily
hypertension) than nonusers. These events were rare (Dalsgaard et al., 2014).
182. A meta-analysis of five studies with over 43,000 children and adolescents found
no significant difference in adverse cardiac events between methylphenidate and
atomoxetine, and a meta-analysis of three studies with 775 adults found no
significant difference in adverse cardiac events between methylphenidate and
placebo (Liang et al., 2018a).
183. A meta-analysis covering people of all ages reported methylphenidate was not
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associated with a higher risk of all-cause death (3 studies, over 1.4 million
people), heart attack or stroke (3 studies, over half a million people) (Liu et al.,
2019a).
184. A cohort study of over 1.8 million pregnancies in the United States and over 2.5
million pregnancies in the health registries of Denmark, Finland, Sweden,
Norway, and Iceland reported that use of methylphenidate (but not
amphetamines) by pregnant woman was associated with a higher risk for cardiac
malformations from 12.9 per thousand infants to 16.5 per thousand infants
(Huybrechts et al., 2018). A meta-analysis of four studies of three million
women also found that intrauterine exposure to methylphenidate was associated
with a higher risk of cardiac malformations (Koren et al., 2020).
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185. A meta-analysis examining the safety of atomoxetine found no significant

increase in risk of irritability (3 studies, over 1,100 children) (Pozzi et al., 2018).
Two others, one combining twenty studies with over 3,000 participants, and
another combining 37 studies with over 3,800 participants, found no increase in
risk of all-cause treatment discontinuation in youths (Catala-Lopez et al., 2017;
Schwartz and Correll, 2014). However, a meta-analysis of twelve studies with
over 3,300 adults found 40% greater rate of all-cause treatment discontinuation,
leading to a conclusion that “atomoxetine has a poor benefit–risk balance for the
treatment of adults with ADHD” (Cunill et al., 2013).
186. The Hong Kong Clinical Data Analysis & Reporting System, a population-based,
electronic medical records database, was used to examine over 25,000 people
receiving methylphenidate for ADHD. During the 90-day period prior to
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initiation of treatment, individuals with ADHD were greater than six times more
likely to attempt suicide than after treatment. After ongoing treatment, the risk
for attempted suicide was no longer elevated among patients with ADHD (Man
et al., 2017).
187. Using the same Hong Kong database, the risk for psychosis did not differ
between periods when patients were on and off methylphenidate treatment (Man
et al., 2016).
188. A Swedish registry study of over 23,000 adolescents and young adults treated
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with methylphenidate for ADHD found no evidence for an association between

psychosis and methylphenidate treatment. A year after initiation of
methylphenidate treatment, the incidence of psychotic events was 36% lower in
in those with a history of psychosis and 18% lower in those without a history of
psychosis relative to the period immediately before the beginning of treatment
(Hollis et al., 2019).
Misuse and Diversion of Stimulant Medications

189. A systematic review of 109 studies concluded that the non-medical use of
prescribed stimulants is a significant public health problem, especially in college
students. Most non-medical use is associated with zero or minor medical effects,
but adverse medical outcomes, including death, occur in some individuals,
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particularly when administered by non-oral routes. Academic and occupational

performance enhancement were the most commonly cited motivations for non-
medical use of stimulants, but there is little evidence that academic performance
is improved by non-medical use in individuals without ADHD (Faraone et al.,
2020).
190. The non-medical use of prescribed stimulants in individuals without ADHD is

associated with lower educational attainment. A U.S. prospective study followed
a nationally representative sample of over 8,300 high school seniors from age 18
to age 35. Those who used prescription stimulants non-medically were 17% less
likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than those who had neither medical or non-
medical use (McCabe et al., 2017).
191. A retrospective study compared 4.4 million people dispensed ADHD

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medications with 6.1 million people dispensed asthma medications. Obtaining

prescriptions from multiple prescribers or filling prescriptions at multiple
pharmacies was highly correlated with abuse, misuse, and diversion. These
“shopping” behaviors were four times more frequent in the ADHD group than in
the asthma group. Those dispensed stimulant medications were more than eight
times as likely to engage in shopping behavior than those dispensed
nonstimulants, but only one in 250 people with stimulant prescriptions engaged
in shopping behavior (Cepeda et al., 2014).
192. A U.S. study of over 440,000 respondents found that use of illegal drugs or other
non-medical use of prescription drugs preceded non-medical use of ADHD
medication in more than three out of four cases (Sweeney et al., 2013).
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193. A study examined Swedish national pharmacy dispensing data for all 56,922
individuals who filled a methylphenidate prescription between 2010 and 2011.
4,304 of the methylphenidate users (7.6%) overused medication as measured by
dispensed prescriptions. Overuse was 17 times more frequent for ages 46–65
compared with ages 6–12 year. It was also twice as frequent among those with
previous alcohol and drug misuse (Bjerkeli et al., 2018).
194. Large studies of calls to U.S. poison control centers related to ADHD
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medications find that intentional exposures, including suspected suicide and

medication abuse and/or misuse is associated with admission to critical care units
and, rarely, death especially when snorted or injected (Faraone et al., 2019a;
King et al., 2018).
Which Non-Medication Treatments are Safe and Effective for ADHD?

Many non-medical treatments have been proposed for ADHD. Most of those offered on the
Internet have not been tested or have been shown not to be effective. In this section, we
distinguish between the effects of a treatment for ADHD symptoms and other benefits it
may confer. Due to the way these therapies are implemented and recorded in the medical
record, large scale naturalistic studies of longer-term outcomes are not possible.
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Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

Behavioral treatments for ADHD are diverse in nature and have a different content and focus
depending on the age of the patient. For preschoolers and grade-school children, parents are
trained to improve their method of disciplining and interacting with their children. For
adolescents and adults, therapy helps patients improve their organizational skills. For some
patients, teachers contribute to a program aimed at improving the child’s behavior. Some of
these therapies focus on improving social behaviors and developing practical skills. In this
section, however, we focus only on the ability of such treatments to improve ADHD
symptoms. Readers should keep in mind that the failure of a treatment to substantially
improve ADHD symptoms does not mean it is not useful for other purposes.
195. A meta-analysis found parent training for preschool children with ADHD to be
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associated with a moderate reduction in parent-reported ADHD symptoms (15

studies, few with active controls, over a thousand participants) and conduct
problems (14 studies, few with active controls, over a thousand participants), but
no significant results for independently assessed ADHD symptoms (6 studies,
403 participants) and conduct problems (6 studies, 311 participants).
Independent assessments reported a small reduction in negative parenting (10
studies, 771 participants) (Rimestad et al., 2019).
196. A meta-analysis of 19 studies of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for adults

with ADHD included 896 participants. It found associations with moderate
improvements in self-reported ADHD symptoms and self-reported functioning.
But when limited to the two studies with active controls and blind assessors (N =
244 participants), it found only small improvements (Knouse et al., 2017). In
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another meta-analysis of 160 patients with adult ADHD, CBT led to large to
moderate improvements compared with waiting list controls. In three studies of
191 patients CBT led to small to moderate improvements compared with active
controls (Young et al., 2020).
197. A meta-analysis of 32 studies with over two thousand participants found that
cognitive training resulted in small to moderate improvements in executive
functioning in preschoolers with ADHD (Scionti et al., 2019).
198. A meta-analysis explored the effectiveness of meditation-based therapy. It found

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moderate reductions in ADHD symptoms in both children and adolescents (6

RCTs, 240 participants) and adults (6 RCTs, 339 participants), but half the
studies did not use active controls. Removing studies with waiting list controls
made results nonsignificant. The authors concluded “there is insufficient
methodologically sound evidence to support the recommendation of meditation-
based therapies as an intervention aimed to target ADHD core symptoms or
related neuropsychological dysfunctions in children/adolescents or adults with
ADHD” (Zhang et al., 2018).
199. A meta-analysis found that social skills training for youth with ADHD did not
improve teacher-assessed social skills (11 studies, over 1,200 youths), general
behavior (8 studies, over 1,000 youths), or school performance and grades (5
studies, over 600 youths) (Storebo et al., 2019).
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200. A meta-analysis of ten studies with 893 youths reported that organizational skills
interventions led to moderate reductions in parent-reported inattention symptoms
(Bikic et al., 2017).
Computer-based Cognitive Training and Neurofeedback

201. A meta-analysis of five randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with 263
participants exploring the efficacy of neurofeedback found a small reduction in
inattention, but no significant reduction in hyperactivity-impulsivity or overall
ADHD symptoms with ratings by probably blinded evaluators (researchers
measuring outcomes did not know if patients were receiving the active or control
treatment) (Micoulaud-Franchi et al., 2014). A more recent meta-analysis of ten
RCTs with 256 participants found no effect on inattention symptoms, but a
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small-to-medium reduction in hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms (Van Doren et

al., 2019).
202. The European ADHD Guidelines Group published meta-analyses of cognitive

training and neurofeedback for youth. Probably blinded cognitive training studies
with active controls (6 studies, 287 youths) reported no significant reduction in
ADHD symptoms. But they did find moderate improvements in verbal working
memory (5 studies, 263 youths). There were no significant effects on academic
outcomes in math and reading (95 studies, 290 youths) (Cortese et al., 2015).
Blinded neurofeedback studies with active/sham controls (6 studies, 251
participants) found no significant reduction in ADHD symptoms (Cortese et al.,
2016a).
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203. A meta-analysis found that working memory training led to short-term

improvements in both verbal working memory (21 studies, over 1,300
participants) and visuospatial working memory (18 studies, over 1,000
participants), with “no convincing evidence that even such near-transfer effects
are durable.” Moreover, most of the studies lacked active controls (Melby-Lervag
and Hulme, 2013).
Supplements, Diet, and Exercise

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204. Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation was associated with small-to-medium

improvements in ADHD symptoms in three meta-analyses (ten studies with 699
participants, 16 studies with 1,408 participants, 7 studies with 534 participants)
(Bloch and Qawasmi, 2011; Chang et al., 2018; Hawkey and Nigg, 2014).
Another meta-analysis, with 18 studies and 1,640 participants, found tiny
improvements (Puri and Martins, 2014).
205. A meta-analysis found no evidence of any effect of omega-3 fatty acid

supplements on parent-rated (5 studies, 650 children) or teacher-rated (3 studies,
598 children) emotional lability symptoms, or parent-rated (8 studies, 875
children) or teacher-rated (6 studies, 805 children) oppositional symptoms in
children with ADHD (Cooper et al., 2016).
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206. A meta-analysis of five double-blind crossover studies with 164 participants

found that restricting synthetic food colors from children’s diets was associated
with a small reduction in ADHD symptoms (Nigg et al., 2012).
207. A meta-analysis of ten studies (300 children) found exercise was associated with
a moderate reduction in ADHD symptoms, but had no significant effect after
adjusting for publication bias (Vysniauske et al., 2020). Another meta-analysis
found no significant effect of exercise on either hyperactivity/impulsivity (4
studies, 227 participants) or inattention symptoms (6 studies, 277 participants),
but significant reductions in anxiety and depression (5 studies, 164 participants)
(Zang, 2019).
208. A nationwide population study using the Swedish Twin Register identified
almost 18,000 twins who completed a web-based examining the relationship
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between inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity subtypes and dietary habits.

The two subtypes of ADHD exhibited very similar associations. Both had
significant associations with unhealthy diets. Both were more likely to be eating
foods high in added sugar and neglecting fruits and vegetables while eating more
meat and fats. After adjusting for degree of relatedness of twins (whether
monozygotic or dizygotic) and controlling for the other ADHD subtype, the
associations remained statistically significant for inattention, but diminished to
negligible levels or became statistically nonsignificant for hyperactivity/
impulsivity. Even for persons with inattention symptoms, adjusted correlations
were small (never exceeding r = 0.10), with the strongest associations being for
overall unhealthy eating habits and eating foods high in added sugar. Among
over 700 pairs of monozygotic (“identical”) twins, it found small but robust
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associations between inattention symptoms and unhealthy eating habits, and

especially with consumption of foods high in added sugar. For hyperactivity/
impulsivity symptoms, the association with unhealthy eating habits was weaker,
and the association with consumption of foods high in added sugar became
statistically insignificant (Li et al., 2020).
Discussion
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This work has curated evidence-based statements about ADHD which paint a picture of the
disorder that we summarize as follows:
ADHD is a chronic disorder in which developmentally inappropriate symptoms of

inattention and/or hyperactivity/impulsivity lead to impairments in many aspects of living.
The disorder, which starts in childhood or early adolescence and is more common in boys
than girls, affects 5.9% of youth and 2.8% of adults worldwide. There are multiple genetic
and environmental risk factors that accumulate in various combinations to cause ADHD.
These risk factors lead to subtle changes in multiple brain networks and in the cognitive,
motivational, and emotional processes they control. People diagnosed with ADHD have an
elevated risk for school failure, antisocial behavior, other psychiatric problems, somatic
disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, accidental injuries, and premature death, including
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attempted and completed suicide. As a result, ADHD costs society hundreds of billions of
dollars each year. Several medications are safe and effective for treating ADHD and for
preventing many adverse outcomes. Non-medication treatments are available but, compared
with medications, are less effective for reducing inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Despite this large body of evidence, we have much more to learn about the disorder and its
various manifestations. Epidemiologic studies have taught us that ADHD occurs around the
world, but we know little about how culture affects the expression of ADHD symptoms or
the response to treatment. Because most research about ADHD is based on Caucasian and
East Asian samples, we must be cautious in generalizing our assertions to other groups. In
addition, far more research pertains to males than females. We also need to learn more about
ADHD in older adults. Future research into ADHD should examine more diverse samples
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from a wider range of cultural contexts.
We have learned much about the causes of ADHD but are only beginning to understand how
genes and environment combine to cause the disorder and affect the brain to produce
symptoms and impairments. Some of these causes may be shared with ADHD’s somatic
comorbidities. Examples include oxidative stress, inflammation, and insulin resistance.
Future work should focus on biological and psychological causal mechanisms to find points
of intervention that will improve the effectiveness of medical and non-medical treatments
and, eventually, prevent onset of the disorder. Although the medications that treat ADHD are
highly effective, we need better methods to prevent the misuse and diversion of these
medications, especially among adolescents and young adults (Faraone et al., 2020).
Many decades of research have led to a method of diagnosing ADHD that is highly valid as
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a predictor of treatment response, family history of ADHD, many clinical features, measures
of brain structure and function, and adverse outcomes. Nevertheless, there are several new
directions for diagnosis. One is to better understand the nature and causes of emotional
symptoms in ADHD and whether these should be incorporated into diagnostic criteria
(Faraone et al., 2019b). Another is to determine if and how mild or sub-threshold cases of
ADHD should be diagnosed and treated (Kirova et al., 2019). Different trajectories of
ADHD across the life-cycle need to be further investigated.
Many researchers are trying to develop computerized or biological tests using information
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about the patient’s behavior, brain and/or genetic makeup. The hope is that such tests will
one day diagnose the disorder, predict a personalized approach to treatment or assist
clinicians in these areas. Others are working on methods that use the vast data available from
medical records to predict which patients with ADHD are at greatest risk for adverse
outcomes later in life. Such work may someday allow healthcare systems to allocate
resources to the highest risk patients.
Although we have good treatments for ADHD, even the best treatments are only partially
effective. The future of treatment for ADHD will include new medications currently in
development and a stronger evidence base for novel non-medication treatments for treating
ADHD symptoms or associated impairments, such as trigeminal nerve stimulation
(McGough et al., 2019) and game-based treatments (Craven and Groom, 2015; Dovis et al.,
2015). And more data are needed to improve existing non-medication treatments and to test
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the efficacy of traditional therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, and Ayurvedic therapies.
Also, little is known about how the somatic disorders that co-occur with ADHD interact with
treatments for ADHD and how the symptoms of the disorder affect somatic outcomes. We
need to learn more about how duration of treatment affects outcomes over longer periods of
time.
We also know little about stigma and ADHD. Stigmatizing attitudes toward ADHD are
common and may play a role in socially and clinically important outcomes. These negative
attitudes affect patients at all stages of their life. Such attitudes have been documented
among individuals at all ages and in all groups, including family, peers, teachers, clinicians,
and even individuals with ADHD themselves (Lebowitz, 2016).
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Despite these and other gaps in our knowledge about ADHD, nearly two and a half centuries
after the first textbook description of an ADHD-like syndrome, the statements about ADHD
which we have curated, make us confident that the contemporary diagnosis of the disorder is
a valid and useful category that can be used around the world to improve the lives of the
many people who suffer from the disorder and its complications.
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Authors
Stephen V. Faraone, PhD1,2,3,*, Tobias Banaschewski, MD, PhD4,5,6, David Coghill,
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MD7, Yi Zheng, MD8,9,10,11,12,13, Joseph Biederman, MD14,15, Mark A. Bellgrove,

PhD16,17, Jeffrey H. Newcorn, MD18,3, Martin Gignac, FRCPC19,20,21, Nouf M. Al
Saud22, Iris Manor, MD23,24,25, Luis Augusto Rohde, MD, PhD26, Li Yang, MD,
PhD27,28,12, Samuele Cortese, MD, PhD29,30,31,32,33, Doron Almagor, MD,
FRCPC34,35,36, Mark A. Stein, PhD37,38, Turki H. Albatti, MD39, Haya F. Aljoudi,
Psy.D40,41, Mohammed M.J. Alqahtani, PhD42,43, Philip Asherson, MRCPsych
PD44, Lukoye Atwoli, MD, PhD45,46,47,48, Sven Bölte, PhD49,50, Jan K. Buitelaar,
MD, PhD51, Cleo L. Crunelle, MD, PhD52,53, David Daley, PhD54,55, Søren
Dalsgaard, MD, PhD56,57, Manfred Döpfner, PhD58,59, Stacey Espinet, PhD60 on

behalf of CADDRA, Michael Fitzgerald, MD61, Barbara Franke, PhD62,63, Manfred
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Gerlach, PhD64, Jan Haavik, MD, PhD65,66, Catharina A. Hartman, PhD67,68,69,70,

Cynthia M. Hartung, PhD71, Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD72,73,74,75,76, Pieter J.
Hoekstra, MD, PhD77, Chris Hollis, PhD, FRCPsych78,79,80,81, Scott H. Kollins,
PhD82,83, J.J. Sandra Kooij, MD, PhD84,85,86,87,88, Jonna Kuntsi, PhD89, Henrik
Larsson, PhD90,91, Tingyu Li, MD92,93,94, Jing Liu, MD27,28,12,95,96, Eugene
Merzon, MD97,98,99,100, Gregory Mattingly, MD101, Paulo Mattos, MD,
PhD102,103,104, Suzanne McCarthy, PhD105, Amori Yee Mikami, PhD106, Brooke
S.G. Molina, PhD107, Joel T. Nigg, PhD108, Diane Purper-Ouakil, MD, PhD109,110,
Olayinka O. Omigbodun, MBBS, MPH, FMCPsych111,112, Guilherme V. Polanczyk,
MD, PhD113, Yehuda Pollak, PhD114,115, Alison S. Poulton, MD116,117, Ravi Philip
Rajkumar, MD118, Andrew Reding119, Andreas Reif, MD120,121, Katya Rubia,
PhD122,2,123, Julia Rucklidge, PhD124, Marcel Romanos, PhD125,6,126, J. Antoni
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Ramos-Quiroga, MD, PhD127,128,129,130,131,132,133, Arnt Schellekens, MD,

PhD134,135, Anouk Scheres, PhD136, Renata Schoeman, MD, MBA,
PhD137,138,139,140,141,142, Julie B. Schweitzer, PhD143, Henal Shah, MD144, Mary V.
Solanto, Ph.D.145,146,147,148, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, PhD149,150, César Soutullo,
MD, PhD151,123,3, Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, MD, MSc, PhD,
DMSc152,153,154,155, James M. Swanson, PhD156, Anita Thapar, FRCPsych,
PhD157, Gail Tripp, PhD158, Geurt van de Glind, PhD159, Wim van den Brink, MD,
PhD160, Saskia Van der Oord, PhD161,162, Andre Venter, PhD163, Benedetto Vitiello,
MD164,165, Susanne Walitza, MD, MSc166, Yufeng Wang, MD, PhD27,28,12
Affiliations
1Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Physiology, Psychiatry
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Research Division, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA 2World
Federation of ADHD, Switzerland 3American Professional Society of ADHD and
Related Disorders (APSARD), USA 4Department of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty
Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany 5Child and Adolescent
Psychiatrist’s Representative, Zentrales-ADHS-Netz, Germany 6The German
Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Germany
7Departments of Paediatrics and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and
Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 8Beijing Anding

Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China 9The National Clinical Research
Center for Mental Disorders, Beijing, China 10Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental
Disorders, Beijing, China 11Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing, China
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12Asian Federation of ADHD, China 13Chinese Society of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, China 14Clinical & Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology

& Adult ADHD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 15Department of
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 16Turner Institute for Brain
and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University,
Clayton VIC, Australia 17President, Australian ADHD Professionals Association
(AADPA), Australia 18Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Division of ADHD
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and Learning Disorders, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,
USA 19Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Montreal Children’s
Hospital, MUHC, Montreal, Canada 20Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada 21Chair, Canadian ADHD Research Alliance
(CADDRA), Canada 22Chairman, Board of Directors, Saudi ADHD Society, Saudi
Arabia 23Associate professor and head of the ADHD clinic, Geha MHC, Sackler
School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 24Chair, Israeli Society of
ADHD (ISA), Israel 25Co-chair, Neurodevelopmental section in the European
Psychiatric Association (EPA), France 26Department of Psychiatry, Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 27Peking University Sixth Hospital/Institute of
Mental Health, National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders (Peking
University Sixth Hospital), Beijing, China 28NHC Key Laboratory of Mental Health
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(Peking University), Beijing, China 29Center for Innovation in Mental Health, School
of Psychology, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of
Southampton, Southampton, UK 30Clinical and Experimental Sciences (CNS and
Psychiatry), Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
31Solent NHS Trust, Southampton, UK 32Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU
Langone, New York University Child Study Center, NewYork City, NY, USA
33Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, University of
Nottingham, Nottingham, UK 34University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry and

SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health, Toronto, Canada 35Canadian ADHD
Research Alliance (CADDRA), Canada 36The Possibilities Clinic, Toronto, On,
Canada 37University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 38Seattle Children’s Hospital,
Seattle, WA, USA 39Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Member, Saudi
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ADHD Society Medical and Psychological Committee, Saudi Arabia 40Consultant

Clinical Neuropsychologist, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 41Saudi ADHD Society Medical and Psychological Committee,
Saudi Arabia 42Clinical Psychology, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
43Head of the National Research Committee, Saudi ADHD Society, Saudi Arabia
44Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology,
and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK 45Department of Mental Health, Moi

University School of Medicine, Eldoret, Kenya 46Brain and Mind Institute, and
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College East Africa, the Aga Khan
University, Kenya 47African Association of Psychiatrists, Kenya 48African College of
Psychopharmacology, Kenya 49Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND),
Centre for Psychiatry Research; Department of Women’s and Children’s Health,
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Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Sweden
50Curtin Autism Research Group, School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and
Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 51Department of

Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour,
Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 52Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Dept of Psychiatry,
Brussel, Belgium 53International Collaboration on ADHD and Substance Abuse
(ICASA), Nijmegen, The Netherlands 54Division of Psychiatry and Applied
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Psychology, School of Medicine University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK 55NIHR

MindTech Mental Health MedTech Cooperative & Centre for ADHD and
Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across the Lifespan (CANDAL), Institute of Mental
Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK 56National Centre for Register-
based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 57The Lundbeck Foundation
Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Aarhus, Denmark
58Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and
Psychotherapy, School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy (AKiP),

Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University Cologne, Cologne,
Germany 59Psychologist’s Representative, Zentrales-ADHS-Netz, Germany
60Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance (CADDRA), Canada 61Former Professor or
Child Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 62Departments of Human Genetics

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and Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud
University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 63Professional Board, ADHD
Europe, Belgium 64Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics
and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Germany 65Department of Biomedicine,
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 66Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University
Hospital, Bergen, Norway 67University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
68University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
69Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE),
Groningen, The Netherlands 70ADHD across the Lifespan Network from European
College of Neuropsychopharmacology(ECNP), The Netherlands 71Department of
Psychology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA 72University of California,
Berkeley, CA, USA 73University of California, San Fancisco, CA, USA 74American
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Psychological Association, USA 75Association for Psychological Science, USA

76Society for Research in Child Development, USA 77University of Groningen,
University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Child and Adolescent

Psychiatry, Groningen, Netherlands 78University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
79Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham, UK 80NIHR
MindTech MedTech Co-operative, Nottingham, UK 81NIHR Nottingham Biomedical

Research Centre, Nottingham, UK 82Duke University School of Medicine, Durham,
NC, USA 83Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA 84Associate
Professor of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Center (VUMc), Amsterdam,
The Netherlands 85Head of Dutch Expertise Center Adult ADHD, PsyQ, The Hague,
The Netherlands 86European Network Adult ADHD, The Netherlands 87DIVA
Foundation, The Netherlands 88Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across Lifespan
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Section of European Psychiatric Association, France 89Social, Genetic and

Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK 90School of Medical Sciences,
Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden 91Department of Medical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden 92Growth, Development and
Mental Health Center for Children and Adolescents, Children’s Hospital of
Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 93National Research Center for
Clinical Medicine of Child Health and Disease, Chongqing, China 94The
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Subspecialty Group of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrcis, the Society of

Pediatrics, Chinese Medical Association, China 95The Chinese Society of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, China 96The Asian Society for Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry and Allied Professions, China 97Assistant Professor, Department of
Family Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
98Head of the Department of Managed Care, Leumit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
99Executive Board Member, Israeli Society of ADHD, Israel 100Chair of ADHD
Section, Israeli National Diabetes Council, Israel 101Washington University, St.

Louis, MO; Midwest Research Group, St Charles, MO, St. Louis, MO, USA
102Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 103D’Or Institute for
Research and Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 104Brazilian Attention Deficit

Association (ABDA), Brazil 105School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork,
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Ireland 106University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 107Departments of

Psychiatry, Psychology, Pediatrics, Clinical & Translational Science, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 108Center for ADHD Research, Department of
Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA 109University of
Montpellier, CHU Montpellier Saint Eloi, MPEA, Medical and Psychological Unit for
Children and Adolescents (MPEA), Montpellier, France 110INSERM U 1018 CESP-
Developmental Psychiatry, France 111Centre for Child & Adolescent Mental Health,
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria 112Department of Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria 113Faculdade de
Medicina FMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao
Paulo, SP, BR 114Seymour Fox School of Education, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel 115The Israeli Society of ADHD (ISA), Israel 116Brain Mind Centre
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Nepean, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 117Australian ADHD Professionals

Association (AADPA), Australia 118Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical
Education and Research, Pondicherry, India 119USA 120Department of Psychiatry,
Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 121German Psychiatric Association, Germany
122Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology
& Neurosciences, King’s College London, London, UK 123European Network for

Hyperkinetic Disorders (EUNETHYDIS), Germany 124School of Psychology, Speech
and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 125Department of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Center of
Mental Health, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 126Zentrales-
ADHS-Netz, Germany 127Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Universitari Vall
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d’Hebron, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 128Group of Psychiatry, Mental Health and

Addictions, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
129Biomedical Network Research Centre on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 130Department of Psychiatry

and Forensic Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia,
Spain 131Chair of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across Lifespan Section of
European Psychiatric Association, France 132Board Member, International
Collaboration on ADHD and Substance Abuse (ICASA), The Netherlands 133Board
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member of DIVA Foundation, The Netherlands 134Radboud University Medical

Centre, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Department of
Psychiatry, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 135International Collaboration on ADHD and
Substance Abuse (ICASA), Nijmegen, The Netherlands 136Behavioural Science
Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 137Associate Professor
and head of the MBA in Healthcare Leadership, University of Stellenbosch Business
School, Cape Town, South Africa 138South African Special Interest Group for Adult
ADHD, South Africa 139The South African Society of Psychiatrists/Psychiatry
Management Group management guidelines for ADHD, South Africa 140World
Federation of Biological Psychiatry, Germany 141American Psychiatric Association,
USA 142Association for NeuroPsychoEconomics, USA 143Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences and the MIND Institute, University of California, Davis,
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Sacramento, CA, USA 144Topiwala National Medical College & BYL Nair Ch.
Hospital, Mumbai, India 145The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell,
Northwell Health, Hemstead, NY, USA 146Professional Advisory Board, Children and
Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), USA 147Professional
Advisory Board, American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders
(APSARD), USA 148Professional Advisory Board, National Center for Children with
Learning Disabilities (NCLD), USA 149Department of Child and Adolescent
Psychaitry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College
London, London, UK 150Department of Child & Adolescent Psychaitry, Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark 151Louis A. Faillace MD, Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
Houston, TX, USA 152University of Zurich, CH, Switzerland 153University of Basel,
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CH, Switzerland 154University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark 155Centre of

Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Copenhagen, Denmark 156Department of
Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA 157Division of
Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Centre for
Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University School of Medicine,
Wales, UK 158Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit, Okinawa Institute of
Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan 159Hogeschool van
Utrecht/ University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands 160Amsterdam
University Medical Centers, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands 161Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
162European ADHD Guidelines Group, Germany 163University of the Free State,
Bloemfontein, South Africa 164University of Torino, Torino, Italy 165Johns Hopkins

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University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA 166Department of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich,
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Acknowledgments
Financial Disclosures
S.V.F. In the past year, he received income, potential income, travel expenses continuing education support and/or
research support from, Akili Interactive Labs, Arbor, Genomind, Ironshore, Ondosis, Otsuka, Rhodes, Shire/
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Takeda, Sunovion, Supernus, Tris, and Vallon. With his institution, he has US patent US20130217707 A1 for the
use of sodium-hydrogen exchange inhibitors in the treatment of ADHD. In previous years, he received support
from: Alcobra, CogCubed, Eli Lilly, Enzymotec, Janssen, KemPharm, Lundbeck/Takeda, McNeil,
Neurolifesciences, Neurovance, Novartis, Pfizer, and Vaya. He also receives royalties from books published by
Guilford Press: Straight Talk about Your Child’s Mental Health; Oxford University Press: Schizophrenia: The
Facts; and Elsevier: ADHD: Non-Pharmacologic Interventions. He is also Program Director of
www.adhdinadults.com. He is supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 602805, the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 667302 & 728018 and NIMH grants
5R01MH101519 and U01 MH109536-01.
T.B. reports the following financial disclosures in the last 3 years: Advisory/consultant/speaker for ADHS digital,
Lundbeck, Medice, Neurim Pharmaceuticals, Oberberg GmbH, Shire/Takeda, Roche, and Infectopharm. Royalties
from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, CIP Medien, Oxford University Press.
D.C reports the following financial disclosures over the last 5 years. Advisory Board: Shire/Takeda, Honoraria and
Travel Support: Shire/Takeda, Medice, Servier, Royalties: Oxford University Press.
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Y.Z. reports receiving grant funding for research on prevention and control of major chronic non-communicable
diseases with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the Ministry of Science and Technology ( No:
2016YFC1306100).
J.B. is currently receiving research support from the following sources: AACAP, Feinstein Institute for Medical
Research, Food & Drug Administration, Genentech, Headspace Inc., NIDA, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Roche TCRC
Inc., Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., Takeda/Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tris, and NIH. Dr. Biederman’s program
has received departmental royalties from a copyrighted rating scale used for ADHD diagnoses, paid by Biomarin,
Bracket Global, Cogstate, Ingenix, Medavent Prophase, Shire, Sunovion, and Theravance; these royalties were paid
to the Department of Psychiatry at MGH. In 2020: Through MGH corporate licensing, Dr. Biederman has a US
Patent (#14/027,676) for a non-stimulant treatment for ADHD, a US Patent (#10,245,271 B2) on a treatment of
impaired cognitive flexibility, and a patent pending (#61/233,686) on a method to prevent stimulant abuse. He
receives honoraria from the MGH Psychiatry Academy for tuition-funded CME courses. In 2019, Dr. Biederman
was a consultant for Akili, Avekshan, Jazz Pharma, and Shire/Takeda. He received research support from Lundbeck
AS and Neurocentria Inc. Through MGH CTNI, he participated in a scientific advisory board for Supernus.
M.A.B. in the last five years has received travel support and speaker fees from Shire Pharmaceuticals. He was on
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the Scientific Advisory Board of Tali Health, the developers of a cognitive training game for ADHD and other
neurodevelopmental disorders. MAB is supported by a Senior Research Fellowship from the National Health and
Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia. He is President of the Australian ADHD Professionals
Association (AADPA).
J.H.N reports the following financial disclosures in the past three years: is/has been an advisor and/or consultant for
Adlon Therapeutics, Akili Interactive, Arbor, Cingulate Therapeutics, Corium, Eisai, Enzymotec, Lundbeck,
Medice, Myriad Neuroscience, NLS, OnDosis, Rhodes, Shire/Takeda, and Supernus. He was a DSMB member for
Pfizer and Sunovion, received research funds from Enzymotec, Otsuka, Shire and Supernus, and received speaker
fees from Shire/Takeda for disease-state presentations.
M.G. reports the following financial disclosures: Advisory Boards: Purdue, Takeda, and Janssen.
N.M.A. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
I.M. reports the following financial disclosures for the last 3 years: Consultant: Novartis Israel, Teva Israel,
Medison Ltd. Advisory Board: Teva (2018). Honorariums: Amaoon, Takeda, and MHS virtual summit. She has also
received PI funding from Alcobra (S/P), Nuance Ltd.
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L.A.R. reports the following financial disclosures: he has been a member of the speakers’ bureau/advisory board
and/or acted as a consultant for Bial, Eli-Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Medice, Novartis, Pfizer and Shire in the last 3 years.
He receives authorship royalties from Oxford Press and ArtMed. The ADHD and Juvenile Bipolar Disorder
Outpatient Programs chaired by him received unrestricted educational and research support from the following
pharmaceutical companies in the last 3 years: Eli-Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, and Shire. He received travel
grants fromShire for attending the 2018 APA meetings. He also receives research support from Brazilian
government institutions: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de
Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS), Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA),
and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).
L.Y. reports the following financial disclosures: has been a member of the speakers’ bureau and/or acted as a
consultant for Eli-Lilly and Janssen. Has also received grant funding from National Natural Science Foundation of
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China (81671358, 81873803).
S.C. declares reimbursement for travel and accommodation expenses from the Association for Child and
Adolescent Central Health (ACAMH) in relation to lectures delivered for ACAMH, Canadian AADHD Alliance
Resource (CADDRA), British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP), and from Healthcare Convention for
educational activity on ADHD.
D.A. reports the following financial disclosures in the last 3 years: Advisory/consultant/speaker for Shire/Takeda,
Janssen and Elvium/Purdue
M.A.S. has received research support: Supernus, Akilli, Shire. Advisor: Genomind, Shire/Takeda, Cingulate, Eisai.
T.H.A. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
H.F.A. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
M.M.J.A. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.

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P.A. has received honoraria for consultancy to Shire/Takeda, Eli-Lilly and Novartis; educational/research awards
from Shire, Lilly, Novartis, Vifor Pharma, GW Pharma and QbTech; speaker at sponsored events for Shire, Lilly,
Flynn Pharma and Novartis. He has also received grant funding support from NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
(NIHR/MRC 14/23/17) and NIHR Senior Investigator award (NF-SI-0616–10040).
L.A. has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Also
received funding from Tonix Pharmaceuticals for research on PTSD treatment.
S.B. reports the following financial disclosures in the last 3 years: Advisor/consultant/speaker for Medice and
Roche. Royalties from Hogrefe, Kohlhammer and UTB.
J.K.B. has been in the past 3 years a consultant to / member of advisory board of / and/or speaker for Takeda/Shire,
Roche, Medice, Angelini, Janssen, and Servier. He is not an employee of any of these companies, and not a stock
shareholder of any of these companies. He has no other financial or material support, including expert testimony,
patents, royalties.
C.L.C. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.

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D.D. reports grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Shire/Takeda. Personal fees and non-financial
support from Medice and Eli Lilly. Non-financial support from QbTech. And book royalties from Jessica Kingsley
from the self-help version of the New Forest Parenting Programme and fees from the provision of training and
supervision for the New Forest Parent Training Programme.
S.D. received research supported by grants from The Lundbeck Foundation (iPSYCH grant no R248–2017-2003),
National Institute of Health (R01, grant no ES026993), Novo Nordisk Foundation (grant no 22018), the European
Commission (Horizon 2020, grant no 667302), Tryg Foundation (109399), Helsefonden (grant no 19–8-0260) and
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 847879.
M.D. reports the following financial disclosures over the last 3 years: consulting income and research support from
Lilly, Medice, Shire, Takeda, and Vifor. He received income as head, supervisor, and lecturer of the School of Child
and Adolescent Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at the University Hospital Cologne and as consultant for Child
Behaviour Therapy at the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche
Bundesvereinigung). He also received royalties from treatment manuals, books and psychological tests published
by Beltz, Elsevier, Enke, Guilford, Hogrefe, Huber, Kohlhammer, Schattauer, Springer, Wiley.
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S.E. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
M.F. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
B.F. has received educational speaking fees from Medice. She also received grant funding from the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Vici Innovation Program (personal grant 016–130–669 to B.F.),
European Community Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020/2014 – 2020) under grant agreement nº 667302 (CoCA).
M.G. is on the board of the WFADHD.
J.H. reports the following financial disclosures in the last 3 years: he has received lecture honoraria from Shire, HB
Pharma, Takeda, Medice and Biocodex.
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C.A.H. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
C.M.H. has received grant support from the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from NIGMS.
S.P.H. has received book royalties from Oxford University Press and St. Martin’s Press, as well as grant support
from N.I.H.
P.J.H. was member of an advisory board meeting of Takeda
C.H. reports lecture fees and honorarium in 2019 from the British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP). He
has also received funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR); UK Medical Research Council
(MRC).
S.H.K. reports the following financial disclosures: Akili Interactive (Research Support, Consulting Stock Options),
Behavioral Innovations Group (Equity), Bose Corporation (Research Support), Tris Pharma (Research Support),
Neos (Research Support), Sana Health (Research Support), OnDosis (Research Support), KemPharm (Research
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Support). He has also received funding from the NIH, John Templeton Foundation.
J.J.S.K. receives research support from Parnassia Groep, the Netherlands.
J.K. has given talks at educational events sponsored by Medice; all funds are received by King’s College London
and used for studies of ADHD.
H.L has served as a speaker for Evolan Pharma and Shire/Takeda and has received research grants from Shire/
Takeda; all outside the submitted work.
T.L. receives research support from the Joint medical research project of Chongqing Science and Technology
Bureau and Health Committee (Key project, Project No.: 2018zdxm012): Chinese research and promotion of
Manual for Primary Care Clinicians about the Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (4th Edition).J.L. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
J.L. is a speaker for Eli-Lilly, Janssen, Otsuka and Abbott. Has received some funding for autism research not
ADHD
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E.M. reports the following financial disclosures in the last 3 years: Advisory/Lecture for: Teva Israel, Medison Ltd.
He also received grant support from the Israel Ministry of Health.
G.M has received grant funding from Akili, Alcobra, Alkermes, Allergan, Axsome, Boehringer, Genentech, Jansen,
Lundbeck, Medgenics, NLS Pharma, Otsuka, Reckitt Benckiser, Roche, Sage, Shire, Sunovion, Supernus, Takeda,
Taisho and Teva.
P.M. reports the following financial disclosures: Shire/Takeda speaker’s honoraria, advisory board and travel
awards.
S.M. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report in the past three years.
A.Y.M. has received funding from the Institute of Education Sciences; Michael Smith Foundation for Health
Research; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
B.S.G.M. has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health.
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J.T.N. has received grant funding support from the National Institute of Mental Health.
D.P.O. reports financial disclosures from Shire (advisory board /speaker fees 2016–2018), travel/accommodation/
honoraria from Medice, speaker fees from Otsuka and Janssen, travel/accommodation support from HAC Pharma,
scientific committee of a study by Mensia without personal fees.
O.O.O. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
G.V.P. reports the following financial disclosures: Advisor/consultant/speaker for Takeda and Medice, Aché, Novo
Nordisk, travel expense for attending AACAP2019 Meeting from Takeda, royalties from Editora Manole. He also
received grant funding from São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, grant 2016/22455–8) and National Council
for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, grant 310582/2017–2).
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Y.P. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
A.S.P. has received personal fees and non-financial support from Shire/Takeda.
R.P.R. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
A.R. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
A.R. reports the following financial disclosures in the last 3 years: Advisor/consultant/speaker for Medice, Janssen,
SAGE, Servier and Shire/Takeda. He has also received grant support from the EC.
K.R. has received a grant from Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
J.R. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
M.R. has received grant funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Grant
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01EE1408.
J.A.R.Q. was on the speakers’ bureau and/or acted as consultant for Eli-Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Novartis, Shire,
Takeda, Bial, Shionogui, Lundbeck, Almirall, Braingaze, Sincrolab, Medice and Rubió in the last 5 years. He also
received travel awards (air tickets + hotel) for taking part in psychiatric meetings from Janssen-Cilag, Rubió, Shire,
Takeda, Shionogui, Bial, Medice and Eli- Lilly. The Department of Psychiatry chaired by him received unrestricted
educational and research support from the following companies in the last 5 years: Eli-Lilly, Lundbeck, Janssen-
Cilag, Actelion, Shire, Ferrer, Oryzon, Roche, Psious, and Rubió. He also received grant funding from the
Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia.
Arnt S. has been supported by a Veni Grant from the Dutch Science Organization (ZonMW).
Anouk S. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
R.S. reports the following financial disclosures for the past 3 years: Sponsorships from Janssen, Lundbeck, Cipla,
Dr Reddy and Takeda; Speaker fees from Servier, Sanofi/Zentiva, Janssen, Lundbeck, Lilly, Dr Reddy, Adcock,
Novartis and Takeda; Pharmaceutical board membership: Lundbeck, Adcock, Lilly and Mylan.
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J.B.S. has no conflicts of interest to report and has received salary support the current year from 2R01 MH091068,
1R03 HD087091, R61 MH110043, R01 MH113855, UL1 TR0011860 and 1TL 1TR001861.
H.S. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
M.V.S. has received grant funding from the National Institute of Health.
E.S.B. reports the following financial disclosures over the last three years: MRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust, The
Waterloo Foundation, University of Copenhagen, KU Leuven, Shire/Takeda, Neurtech Solutions, QBTech.
C.S. in 2019–2020 reports the following financial disclosures: Lundbeck (Clinical Trial, Departmental Funds),
NeuroTech Solutions, Medice (Advisory Board), Rubio (Speaker), Editorial Medica Panamericana (Book
Royalties).
H.C.S. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
J.M.S reports the following financial disclosures: Advisory Board for Medice; travel support from Medice and
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Shire/Takeda
A.T. had research funded by Wellcome Trust, MRC, ESRC and Waterloo Foundation.
G.T. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
G.vd.G. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
W.v.B financial disclosures for the last 3 years include: Consultant: Novartis, Indivior, Takeda, Opiant, D&A
Pharma; Speaker’s Fees: Angelini, Recordati.
S.V.O has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.

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A.V. has no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures to report.
B.V. has been a consultant for Medice, Lundbeck, Angelini, and Alkermes Pharmaceuticals, and for law firms
Goodwin & Procter and Haynes & Boone. He holds no stocks of pharmaceutical companies.
S.W. has received in the last 5 years royalities from Thieme Hogrefe, Kohlhammer, Springer, Beltz. Received
lecture honoraria from Opopharma in the last 5 years.Her work was supported in the last 5 years by the Swiss
National Science Foundation (SNF), diff. EU FP7s, HSM Hochspezialisierte Medizin of the Kanton Zurich,
Switzerland, Bfarm Germany, ZInEP, Hartmann Müller Stiftung, Olga Mayenfisch, Gertrud Thalmann Fonds.
Outside professional activities and interests are declared under the link of the University of Zurich www.uzh.ch/
prof/ssl-dir/interessenbindungen/client/web.
Y.W. receives research support from Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen “The ADHD research group from
Peking University Sixth hospital”(SZSM201612036), the Major State Basic Research Development Program of
China (973Program, 2014CB846100).
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Table 1:
Summary of Findings
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Findings Items
The syndrome we now call ADHD has been described in the medical literature since 1775. 1 – 13
When made by a licensed clinician, the diagnosis of ADHD is well-defined and valid at all ages, even in the presence of other 14–19
psychiatric disorders, which is common.
ADHD is more common in males and occurs in 5.9% of youth and 2.5% of adults. It has been found in studies from Europe, 20–25
Scandinavia, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, South America, and North America.
ADHD is rarely caused by a single genetic or environmental risk factor but most cases of ADHD are caused by the combined 26–62
effects of many genetic and environmental risks each having a very small effect.
People with ADHD often show impaired performance on psychological tests of brain functioning, but these tests cannot be used to 63–70
diagnose ADHD.
Neuroimaging studies find small differences in the structure and functioning of the brain between people with and without ADHD. 71–77
These differences cannot be used to diagnose ADHD.
People with ADHD are at increased risk for obesity, asthma, allergies, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sleep problems, psoriasis, 78–100
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epilepsy, sexually transmitted infections, abnormalities of the eye, immune disorders, and metabolic disorders.
People with ADHD are at increased risk for low quality of life, substance use disorders, accidental injuries, educational 101–136
underachievement, unemployment, gambling, teenage pregnancy, difficulties socializing, delinquency, suicide, and premature
death.
Studies of economic burden show that ADHD costs society hundreds of billions of dollars each year, worldwide. 137–147
Regulatory agencies around the world have determined that several medications are safe and effective for reducing the symptoms of 148–157
ADHD as shown by randomized controlled clinical trials.
Treatment with ADHD medications reduces accidental injuries, traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, cigarette smoking, 158–177
educational underachievement, bone fractures, sexually transmitted infections, depression, suicide, criminal activity and teenage
pregnancy.
The adverse effects of medications for ADHD are typically mild and can be addressed by changing the dose or the medication. 178–188
The stimulant medications for ADHD are more effective than non-stimulant medications but are also more likely to be diverted, 189–194
misused, and abused.
Non-medication treatments for ADHD are less effective than medication treatments for ADHD symptoms, but are frequently useful 195–208
to help problems that remain after medication has been optimized.
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The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus

providers, and prevent/delay treatment. To challenge misconceptions, we curated findings with

ADHD Society, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Across Lifespan section of the European

A Brief History: ADHD is not a New Disorder

2. 1798: Alexander Crichton from the Royal College of Physicians (United

4. 1887–1901: Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, Charles Boulanger, Georges Paul-

psychiatry. He described the impact of inattention and hyperactivity among

7. 1917: the Spanish neurologist and psychiatrist Gonzalo Rodriguez-Lafora

9. 1937: Charles Bradley, from the USA, discovered that an amphetamine

10. 1940s: ADHD-like symptoms in children described as “minimal brain

How is ADHD diagnosed?

The main features of the diagnosis are:

14. The diagnosis requires: 1) the presence of developmentally inappropriate levels

15. The clinical presentation of ADHD can be described as primarily inattentive,

primarily hyperactive-impulsive, or combined, depending on the nature of their

stimulant treatment (Katusic et al., 2011; Rommelse et al., 2017).

17. In adolescence and young adulthood, many individuals with a history of

How Common is ADHD?

21. The latter meta-analysis found no increase in the prevalence of ADHD in

residual impairment (Faraone et al., 2006).

24. A meta-analysis of 19 studies encompassing over 150,000 U.S. Black youths

25. ADHD is more common in males. A meta-analysis of parent ratings of

studies with over 56,000 participants, found a roughly two-to-one male/female

ratio in youth (Willcutt, 2012).

What causes ADHD?

Genetic Causes of ADHD

Environmental Correlates of ADHD: Exposure to Toxicants

37. In a meta-analysis of 15 double-blind, placebo-controlled trials with 219

38. In a Taiwanese study of over 10,000 births, maternal use of acetaminophen

41. Organophosphate pesticides are potent neurotoxins. In a sample of 1,139

metabolite dimethyl alkylphosphate (DMAP) was associated with 55% increase

42. A meta-analysis found no significant effect of three classes of air pollutants –

found no association between small particulate matter levels, sulphur dioxide

44. A meta-analysis of nine European population studies encompassing 4,826

45. A meta-analysis of seven studies encompassing a total of over 25,000

Environmental Correlates of ADHD: Nutrient Deficiencies

48. A nationwide population-based case-control study using the Finnish national

Environmental Correlates of ADHD: Events During Pregnancy and Birth

85 studies with a total of over 4.6 million births, found a small-to-moderate

51. A nationwide population-based cohort study using Swedish registers and

elevated risk of ADHD in children of obese mothers and a doubled risk in

Environmental Correlates of ADHD: Deprivation, Stress, Infection, Poverty and Trauma

55. A Taiwan-wide longitudinal cohort study based on the country’s universal

56. A nationwide population-based cohort study using Danish registers compared

57. A U.S. population-based study of over 14,000 participants in the National

Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that after adjusting for

response relationship between cumulative indicators of adversity in the family

Survey of Children’s Health, greater family cohesion and community support

or change as patients grow out of the disorder.

Performance Deficits in Psychological Processes

adolescents, found those with ADHD exhibited moderately greater impulsive

67. A recent meta-meta-analysis included 34 meta-analyses of neurocognitive

reaction time variability, response inhibition, intelligence/achievement, planning/

organization). Effects were larger in children and adolescents than in adults

70. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with preschoolers found

that cognitive training led to moderate improvement in working memory (23