Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 116-122 , March 2006

The relations between DISC-IV DSM diagnoses of ADHD and multi-informant CBCL-AP syndrome scores

  • Eske M. Derks

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 20 598 8743; fax: +31 20 598 8832.
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  • Jim J. Hudziak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Medicine, Division of Human Genetics, Center for Children, Youth and Families, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
    • College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
    • ,
  • Conor V. Dolan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Robert F. Ferdinand

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center/Sophia Children's Hospital, 3015 GJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Dorret I. Boomsma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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☆ This work was supported by NWO grants 575-25-006, 575-25-012, and 904-57-94 (DI Boomsma, principal investigator), NIMH grant MH58799 (JJ Hudziak, principal investigator), and by the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research.

PII: S0010-440X(05)00077-5

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.05.006

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 116-122 , March 2006

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