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  The term attention deficit is misleading. In general, the current predominating theories suggest that persons with ADHD actually have difficulty regulating their attention; inhibiting their attention to nonrelevant stimuli, and/or focusing too intensely on specific stimuli to the exclusion of what is relevant. In one sense, rather than too little attention, many persons with ADHD pay too much attention to too many things, leading them to have little focus.

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  Mackin RS, Horner MD. Relationship of the Wender Utah Rating Scale to objective measures of attention. Compr Psychiatry. 2005 Nov-Dec;46(6):468-71.
  Kalbag AS, Levin FR. Adult ADHD and substance abuse: diagnostic and treatment issues. Subst Use Misuse. 2005;40(13):1955-81.
  Burden MJ, Mitchell DB. Implicit Memory Development in School-Aged Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Conceptual Priming Deficit? Dev Neuropsychol. 2005;28(3):779-807.
  Upadhyaya HP, Rose K, Wang W, O'rourke K, Sullivan B, Deas D, Brady KT. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, medication treatment, and substance use patterns among adolescents and young adults. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2005 Oct;15(5):799-809.



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