ADHD - An Illustrated historical overview

Such observations on social milieu and life quality were made as early as 1935 by A.T. Childers and ultimately gained ground in the 1970s and 1980s with the works of Virginia Douglas, from the McGill University in Montreal. Douglas argued that the major disability of hyperactive children involved an inability to sustain atten- tion and to inhibit impulsive responding during tasks and situations requiring organized and focused efforts. Article of Paul Levin, 1938. Article of A.T. Childers, 1935. Kahn and Cohen (1934) describe 3 cases in which hyperkinesis is a predominant feature that they term “organic driveness”, considered to be the result of a subacute encephalitis affecting brain stem and basal ganglia.