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Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in major depressed and bipolar subjects: role of personality traits and clinical implications

Authors: Marco Di Nicola, Loretta Sala, Lucia Romo, Valeria Catalano, Christian Even, Caroline Dubertret, Giovanni Martinotti, Giovanni Camardese, Marianna Mazza, Daniela Tedeschi, Antonino Callea, Luisa De Risio, Julien Daniel Guelfi, Fréderic Rouillon, Luigi Janiri, Philip Gorwood

Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Issue 5/2014

Abstract

A significant comorbidity between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and affective disorders has been consistently reported in adults. Less data regarding the role of personality traits and the influence of ADHD co-occurrence on clinical characteristics and outcome of mood disorders are currently available. One hundred and six remitted major depressed, 102 euthymic bipolar subjects, and 120 healthy controls, homogeneous with respect to demographic characteristics, were included in the study. ADHD diagnosis was based on DSM-IV-TR criteria. Childhood and adult ADHD features were measured with the Wender Utah Rating Scale, the Adult ADHD Self-rating Scale, and the Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scale. The Revised NEO Personality Inventory was also administered to the clinical groups, in order to investigate personality dimensions. The occurrence of adult ADHD in subjects with bipolar disorders (BD) or major depressive disorder (MDD) was 15.7 and 7.5 %, respectively, compared to 3.3 % in healthy controls (HC). Significant associations (p < .001) between personality traits (neuroticism, conscientiousness, and extraversion) and ADHD features were observed. Logistic regression analysis of all clinical subjects (n = 208) showed that those with lower levels of neuroticism (OR = 1.031; p = .025) had a lower frequency of ADHD comorbidity. The present study emphasizes the close relationship between affective disorders, especially BD, and ADHD in adults. Our findings support the need to assess subjects with mood disorders in the clinical setting for possible coexisting ADHD and to further investigate personality traits to better understand the etiology of affective disorders and ADHD co-occurrence.

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Title: Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in major depressed and bipolar subjects: role of personality traits and clinical implications
Authors: Marco Di Nicola
Loretta Sala
Lucia Romo
Valeria Catalano
Christian Even
Caroline Dubertret
Giovanni Martinotti
Giovanni Camardese
Marianna Mazza
Daniela Tedeschi
Antonino Callea
Luisa De Risio
Julien Daniel Guelfi
Fréderic Rouillon
Luigi Janiri
Philip Gorwood
Publication date: 01-08-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Issue 5/2014
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-013-0456-6

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Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in major depressed and bipolar subjects: role of personality traits and clinical implications

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