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Everybody knows at least on person with a difficulty of staying still, sustaining attention or inconvenient impulses. For some people the problem is so serious that it is regarded as a psychiatric disorder. Formally known as hyperkinesis, hyperactivity, minimal brain damage and minimal brain dysfunction, Attention Deficit disorder received its present name in the late 70s, and was again restored in 1994 edition of DSM IV. ADD is the most commonly diagnosed childhood psychiatric condition with …

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…Neale J, 1990,p416). At the expected age they fail to reach developments such as walking. By their preschool years, they will be looked at as emotional and temperamental children. But this tends to disappear in adulthood, and late adolescence. Once in the work place as an adult an their disorder does not show up as prominently as it did throughout their school years. They have already become more subdued, but little features are still noticeable.