| 1863 - Fidgety Phil |
A German nursery rhyme written by ? describes a child who
is unable to sit still at the table. |
| 1902 - moral defect |
George Still, a British physician wrote about 20 children
who displayed noncompliance and aggression, and whose "moral
defects", he believed, were due to underlying neurological
problems. |
| 1917-18 - post-encephalitic behavior disorder |
An encephalitis epidemic left surviving children with ADGD
symptoms |
| 1930's-40's - minimal brain damage and minimal
brain dysfunction (MBD) |
The cognitive and behavioral problems of children with 'brain
damage were described, along with similar characteristics in
children who had not sustained brain damage. |
| 1950's-60's - Hyperkinesis |
At this time the terms hyperkinesis and hyperactive were
used to describe children with high activity levels. |
| 1970's - Attention deficit disorder |
The birth of the term |
| 1980's - Attention deficit disorder with
or without hyperactivity |
Increasing research into the disorder and the beginnings
of serious efforts to treating the disorder |
| 1990's - Attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder - ADHD |
Further articulating symptoms, subtypes, comorbid factors,
causes, and other features of the disorder. |
