Updates on treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: facts, comments, and ethical considerations
Aribert Rothenberger1, Lillian Geza Rothenberger
1Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medicine Göttingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075, Göttingen, Germany, arothen@gwdg.de.
Opinion Statement:
Within the last 2 years the bulk of information on evidence based treatments in ADHD was reviewed quite intensively and new empirical studies could be added. This update reports comprehensively about actual and essential facts in the field related to brain development and sensitive periods, predictors of treatment, safety of medication, value of naturalistic studies, new drugs and complementary medicine, behavioral interventions including neurofeedback and psychosocial treatment, treatment of comorbidity, and ethical considerations including preventive aspects. The updated combination of well selected evidence based treatments (ie, pharma plus non-pharma) seems to be clinically and ethically recommended as also suggested by the European and American guidelines on ADHD.
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