#ADD VS ADHD MANUAL#
The American Psychiatric Association only first noted the syndrome as Hyperkinetic Impulse Disorder in the second Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) published in 1968.
Other names for ADHD have included Hyperkinetic Impulse Disorder, Hyperexcitable Syndrome, Hyperactive Child Syndrome, Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood, and Minimal Brain Dysfunction. The father of British Pediatrics, Sir George Fredrick Sill presented a series of 3 lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in London outlining “abnormal psychical conditions in children.” In his lectures he described 43 children “who had serious problems with sustained attention and self-regulation, who were often aggressive, defiant and resistant to discipline, excessively emotional or passionate, who showed little inhibitory volition, had serious problems with sustained attention and could not learn from the consequences of their action though their intellect was normal.” These lectures were also published in The Lancet (the premier medical journal of British medicine) in 1902. A syndrome defining the broad outlines of the disorder was first noted in 1902. Over the past 120 years, the neurodevelopmental disorder known as ADHD has been called by various names.
Whereas ADHD is the current nomenclature used for the disorder. ADD is simply an older term used by the American Psychiatric Association for the disorder. What is ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)? What is ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? Are they different? Actually, both terms refer to exactly the same disorder of attention, arousal regulation and impulse control in children and adults.
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