Green S M, Loeber R, Lahey B B
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1991 Jan;30(1):135-7. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199101000-00020.
The stability of mothers' recall of age of onset of attention deficit and hyperactive behaviors was assessed over a 1-year interval. The paper reports on which behaviors have the highest stability and the stability of a psychiatric diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactive disorder using different age cut-offs. The data showed a moderate degree of stability over a 1-year period, with school-related symptoms showing the least amount of change. An argument is made for keeping the current DSM-III-R diagnostic cut-off at age 6.
