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#173 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with Professor Mark Bellgrove

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The Role of Genetic Risk Factors in ADHD

For all of the ones I've mentioned whether it be schizophrenia and depression, bipolar, there are no objective biomarkers yet that can aid diagnosis. There are an emerging group of environmental exposures that come forward sometimes they crop up as significant in large-scale studies but will likely be very small in terms of their effect size for risk. Maternal smoking, maternal drinking are certainly things that we know elevate the risk for ADHDSometimes difficult with those ones to rule out the genetic predisposition on the part potentially of the mother that is leading them to smoke and drink for example and themselves have some ADHD symptoms. That's always very difficult. Even paracetamol during pregnancy has now been linked to an increase

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