ADHD as Sequel to Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

Abstract

Investigators from Ruth Children's Hospital, Haifa, and Schneider Medical Center, Petah Tikuah, Israel, evaluated the long-term motor and neurocognitive outcome of 43 children hospitalized during 2002-2012 with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), and identified prognostic risk factors.

Keywords

• attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
• acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
• behavioral problems