Pathologies and conditions mimicking ADHD

 

A - Psychological factors

1. Adaptation disorder with symptoms of conduct disorder
2. Bulimia
3. Child genius
4. Child vitiated
5. Child undisciplined
6. Compulsive obsessive disorder 
7. Conduct disorder
8. Depression
9. Enuresi
10. Encopresis
11. Gambling
12. Generalized Anxiety
13. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
14. Humor disorders

Learning disability

15. Dyscalculia (mathematics)
16. Motor coordination disorder (DSM-IV), Specific developmental disorder of the motor function (ICD- 10)
17. Dislexya (reading)
18. Dysgraphia (writing)
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19. Mental retardation (enviromental)
20. Oppositive-Provocative disorder
    Pervasive Developmental Disorders
21. Childhood autism
22. Rett Syndrome
23. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
24. Asperger's Syndrome
25. Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified ( including Atypical autism ICD-1O)
26. Overactive disorder associated with mental retardation and stereotyped movements (ICD-10)
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27. Post traumatic stress disorder

Psychosis
28. Dissociative
29. Bipolar disorder
30. Personality disorders
31. Mania
32. Schizophrenia
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33. Social phobia
34. Separation Anxiety
35. Sexual and physical abuses
36. Situational problems, environmental, family, school, quality of life
37. Tics

    B - Medical factors

38. Abscess subclinic post-traumatic
39. Akathisia
40. Allergies (15 to 20 percent of the people have some type of allergy, particularly for food)


41. Anemia
42. Bronchial asthma
43. Complement system (blood proteins that play an important role in defending against viral and bacterial infections; i.e. C4B protein)
44. Carbon Monoxide poisoning
45. Cardiacs (diseases and disorders)
46. Celiac disease
47. Cerebral cysts
48. Chronic fatigue syndrome
49. Delivery (complications from)
50. Elecrtical hypersensitivity
51. Epilepsy
52. Fibromyalgia syndrome
    Genetic anomalies
53. Aarskog-Scott syndrome
54. Congenital or juvenile myotonic dystrophy
55. Down syndrome
56. Dubowitz syndrome
57. Hemophilia
58. Increased cellular nucleotidase activity
59. X fragile syndrome
60. Length of the Y chromosome
61. Mosaicism for trisomy 17
62. Phenylketonuria
63. Prader-Willi syndrome
64. Rett syndrome
65. Ring chromosome 8 syndrome
66. Succinyl-CoA: 3-oxoacid CoA-transferase deficiency
67. Velocardiofacial syndrome
68. Weinberg syndrome
69. Wilson disease
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70. Hearing disorders
71. Hyperthyroidism
72. Hypothyroidism
73. Hypoglycemia (Low blood sugar caused by: thyroid, liver, pancreas, adrenal gland, diet)
74. Hurt and damages to the head
75. Hypoxia (congenital heart disease, sleep-disordered breathing, asthma, chronic ventilatory impairment, respiratory instability)
76. Intestinal parasitics ( infestation )
77. Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
78. Lesions of the basal forebrain cortical cholinergic system
79. Kidney (chronic renal disease)
80. Korea
81. Lupus erythematosus (systemic)
82. Mental retardation (biological and genetic)
83. Metabolic disorders
84. Migraine
85. Obesity
86. Otitis media
87. Perinatali (unfavorable factors)
88. Physiological Vivacity
89. Porphyria
90. Post traumatic subclinical access
91. Premature diabetes
92. Prenatal (insufficient health and malnutrizione of the mother, drug use)
93. Restless Legs Syndrome
94. Sensory integration (dysfunction)
95. Spinal problems
96. Sleep (disturbs of)
97. Toxine exposure

Tumors
98. Incipient cerebral tumors
99. Neoplasie of the frontal Lobe
100. Neuroepiteliale disembrioplastico
101. Neurofibromatosis type 1
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Vascular cerebral

Lenticulostriate vasculopathy
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103. Voluntary or involuntary inhalation of substances

Infections

104. Adenoids
105. Candida Albicans
106. Meningitis
107. Streptococcus Beta-Emolitico
108. Tonsillitis
109. Viral encephalitis
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     Vison disorders
     
110. Accommodative dysfunction
111. Tracking
112. Convergence
113. Visual Acuity - Far
114. Stereopsis
115. Visual Acuity - Near
116. Hyperopia
117. Color Vision
118. Visual Motor Integration
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C - Psicotropic Substance


119. Alcohol
120. Caffeine
121. Cocaine
122. D-lysergic acid (LSD)
123. Eroine
124. Marijuana
125. Medicines
126. Nicotine
127. Phencyclidine (PCP)

D - Feedeng

Amino acids (deficit)
128. Isoleucine
129. Phenylalanine
130. Tyrosine
131. Tryptophan
132. Histidine

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133. Calcium (deficiency of)
134. Copper (deficiency of)
135. Food preservative
136. Food synthetic colouring
137. Iodine (deficiency of)
138. Ionic Magnesium (low level of Mg(2+))
139. Iron (deficiency of)
140. Magnesium (deficiency of)
141. Malnutrition
142. Manganese (high level of)
143. Omega 3 (deficiency of)
144. Vitamins (excess of)
145. Vitamin B (deficiency of)
146. Wrong diet
147. Zinc (deficiency of)

     E - Unfavorable Situations

148. Chemotherapy for cancer
149. Physical pain
150. Hunger

Medicament

151. Allergy medication contain anthistamine or stimulants
152. Cold medication contain anthistamine or stimulants
153. Sinus medication contain anthistamine or stimulants
154. Sleeping medication that can impair alertness and concentration
155. Antibiotics: frequently cause fatique, same
of them have been associated with mental alterations; e.g. cephalosporin
Antidepressants

156. Citalopram Hydrobromide
157. Escitalopram
158. Fluoxetine
159. Fluvoxamine
160. Paroxetine
161. Sertraline

Antiepileptic medication

162. Carbamazepine
163. Phenytoin
164. Divalproex Sodium
165. gabapentin
     Antipsychotics
166. Chlorpromazine
167. Thioridazine
168. Fluphenazine
169. Prochlorperazine
170. Haloperidol
171. Thiothixene
172. Olanzapine
173. Quetiapine
174. Risperidone

Asthma medication
175. Antihistaminics
176. Ephedrine
177. Pseudoephedrine
178. Theophylline
     Barbiturates
179. Phenobarbital: 5-ethyl-5-phenyl-1,3-diazinane-2,4,6-trione
180. Amobarbital: 5-ethyl-5-(3-methylbutyl)-1,3-diazinane-2,4,6-trione
181. butabarbital: 5-sec-Butyl-5-ethylbarbituric acid
182. pentobarbital: 5-Ethyl-5-(1-methylbutyl)-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-pyrimidinetrione
183. Secobarbital: 5-(1-methylbutyl)-5-prop-2-enyl-hexahydropyrimidine-2,4,6-trione
     Minor tranquilizer, sedatives, sleep medications
184. Alprazolam
185. Clonazepam
186. Chlordiazepoxide
187. Diazepam
188. Flurazepam
189. Lorazepam
190. Triazolam

Mood stabilizer

191. Lithium Carbonate
192. Verapamil

Stimulants, included same used drugs in order to cure the ADHD
193. Desoxyephedrine
194. Dextroamphetamine
195. Methylphenidate
196. Pemoline

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Steroids

197. Testosterone
198. Methandrostenolone / methandienone
199. Nandrolone Decanoate
200. Nandrolone Phenylpropionate
201. Boldenone Undecylenate
202. Stanozolol
203. Oxymetholone
204. Oxandrolone
205. Fluoxymesterone
206. Trenbolone
207. Methenolone Enanthate
208. 4-chlordehydromethyltestosterone
209. Mesterolone
210. Mibolerone
211. Prednisone/steroid hormones: 17-hydroxy-17-(2-hydroxyacetyl)-10,13-dimethyl-7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16,17-decahydro-6H- cyclopenta[a]phenanthrene-3,11-dione
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212. Movement (exercise lack)
213. New technologies (intensive and/or premature use of the computer, video games, TV)
214. Wearying

     F - Pollution

215. Aluminium (high level of)
216. DDT
217. Lead (Mild to high levels)
218. Mercury (high level of)
219. PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyls)

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