Attention, Genes and ADHD
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Published: April 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781841692678
Subjects: Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Diseases & disorders; Medical genetics; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Specific disorders & therapies; Psychology; Developmental - Child; Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Development; Developmental - General; Developmental - Adulthood & Aging
First sentence: Clinical interest in problems of overactivity and attention goes back to lectures to the Royal Academy of Physicians by George Still (1902), who described a group of children manifesting a deficit in "volitional inhibition" or a deficit of moral control!