Attention Deficit Disorder - What Is It?

In 19 80, with the d s m three, we have the use of the term attention deficit disorder. And interestingly, there were two sub types identified then, plus hyper activity and without hyper activity. The prominantly intentive, inattentive sub type have high problems of inattention,. lower level problems in hyper activity impulsivity. On the other hand, the reverse is true for the active impulsive sub type which has a lot of difficulty withhyper activity impulsivity, less difficulty with inattention. So how do we define this? We say that the predominantly inattentives must meet symptom thresholds for both disorders. For adults and late adolescents they are only required