My name is John Bailey. I'm a family practice physician in Mobile, Alabama. It's passed down from parent to child. They really are two different conditions. They're easy to mix up because the same medications and same doctors treat them.
ADD is a term that was official up until about ten years ago.
The symptoms should show up at home, in school, at church or at play. These two conditions seem to go together genetically. There was a recent large study by the National Institutes of Health involving more than 700 children, divided into four groups. One group got medication alone. A second group got a gold-plated, excellent, massive behavior modification.