Mental Disorders: News and Research on Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

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Sensory overload in kids has distinct neurobiological roots

Overreactions to ordinary sensory stimuli—a scratchy shirt tag, a roaring vacuum cleaner, an unfamiliar smell—are commonly associated with autism. But in fact, an estimated 15% to 20% of children experience such reactions, ...

Has the definition of autism become too broad to be useful?

The definition of autism may have become so broad that it risks confusion and even misdiagnosis, according to a new editorial by UCL professor Dame Uta Frith, whose pioneering research in the 1960s and '70s laid the foundations ...

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