Am J Psychiatry 1979; 136:955-958
Copyright © 1979 by American Psychiatric Association
Diagnosis of adult psychiatric patients with childhood hyperactivity
JR Morrison
The authors compared 48 adult psychiatric patients (27 men and 21 women)
who had been hyperactive as children with two groups of patients who had
not. Both comparison groups were matched for age and sex and the second was
also matched for economic status. Although closer matching narrowed the gap
somewhat, the formerly hyperactive subjects still showed significantly more
personality disorder of all types, more sociopathy, more alcoholism, and
less affective disorder than controls. Schizophrenia and drug abuse
occurred no more often in these subjects than in the comparison groups.
