Abstract

PORTELA SABARI, Alba; CARBONELL NARANJO, Migdalia; HECHAVARRIA TORRES, Maricel  and  JACAS GARCIA, Caridad. Disorder due to lack of attention and hyperactivity: some considerations about its etiopathogenesis and treatment. MEDISAN [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.4, pp.553-563. ISSN 1029-3019.

The disorder due to lack of attention and hyperactivity constitutes a persistent or continuous model of inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsiveness that hinders the daily activities or the typical development, because it causes difficulties to keep the attention, the executive function and the work memory. For their repercussion either in children or in adults, at the present time it is a topic of great interest on which many studies are made worldwide. In this work important aspects related to the etiopathogenesis of this syndrome are approached and the different treatments used to palliate it; also some information about the associated morbidities and the conceptual approaches that are evidenced in the international classification systems are offered

Keywords : disorder due to lack of attention and hyperactivity; inattention; hyperactivity; impulsiveness; children.