Correspondence between DSM-II Hyperkinetic Reaction and DSM-III Attention Deficit Disorder

Abstract

All charts of the Ohio State University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic between July 1968 and June 1972 were screened for a hyperkinetic diagnosis and for documentation of DSM-III attention deficit disorder (ADD) criteria. One-hundred ten out of 1530 were diagnosed hyperkinetic. Sixty-one of these also met DSM-III criteria for ADD. An additional 28 not diagnosed hyperkinetic had chart documentation sufficient for a diagnosis of ADD. The data may support Silver's plea for a category of hyperactivity without attention deficit.