American Psychiatric Association
American organization
Also known as: APA
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attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) replaced these terms with attention deficit disorder (ADD). Then in 1987 the APA linked ADD with hyperactivity, a condition that sometimes accompanies attention disorders but may exist independently. The new syndrome was named attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
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Brigham
- In Amariah Brigham
…Insane, which later became the American Psychiatric Association. That year Brigham also founded the American Journal of Insanity (later known as the American Journal of Psychiatry), one of the first English-language journals devoted exclusively to mental illness.
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Kirkbride
- In Thomas Story Kirkbride
…Insane, now known as the American Psychiatric Association.
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