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Commentary: ADHD lifetime trajectories and the relevance of the developmental perspective to Psychiatry: reflections on Asherson and Agnew‐Blais, (2019)
Author(s) -
Polanczyk Guilherme V.,
Casella Caio,
Jaffee Sara R.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.13050
Subject(s) - psychology , perspective (graphical) , psychopathology , developmental psychopathology , relevance (law) , developmental psychology , young adult , psychiatry , clinical psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , law
Asherson and Agnew‐Blais review evidence from prospective, longitudinal studies in Brazil, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States showing that ADHD can emerge for the first time in adolescence or young adulthood. These findings defy conventional wisdom specifying that ADHD is, by definition, a disorder that emerges in childhood. We discuss possible explanations for the late‐onset of ADHD , including the removal in adolescence or young adulthood of features of a young person's environment that played a buffering role against the emergence of symptoms and heterotypic continuity in a general liability to psychopathology that is present from childhood.