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Newhouse also heads two studies of nicotinic stimulation in ADHD, using the patch, nicotine blockers, and some novel drugs that activate nicotine receptors.
Diagnosis of ADHD was made by the author during the course of patients' obesity treatment, using semi-structured interviews over one or more visits.
A different argument was made by Barkley and Biederman [ 27 ] , that requiring symptoms to have been present by a single, specific point in early childhood in order to diagnose ADHD is not rational, that is, ADHD is better conceptualized as a disorder arising in childhood generally.
Recent studies have shown that patient memory was consistent enough with other information to be useful for diagnostic purposes [ 25 ] . Patients' reports were likely to be accurate, but there were often "gaps" in memory of early experience, not inconsistent with ADHD in general, favoring an inference that they didn't remember their behavior rather than not having had the behavior.
In children, the rate of occurrence has customarily been given as 3 to 5%, but recent studies show the condition is present in 15% or more of school age populations [ 11 12 ] . Persistence of ADHD into adulthood has been shown to occur in 30 to 50% (or more) of childhood cases [ 13 ] , depending on the criteria used [ 14 ] . It is clear that adults with a history of ADHD in childhood have greater difficulty functioning compared to their non-ADHD peers [ 15 ] . One example is the higher rate of substance use disorders in ADHD adults compared to the general population [ 16 ] , such use often viewed as a kind of "self-medication" of unpleasant emotions [ 16 ] . In obesity, similar patterns of eating (seeking immediate gratification, using food to reduce dysphoria) have been observed [ 17 ] , though not previously linked to ADHD.
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