MARCH 2011: Perinatal, maternal, and fetal characteristics of children diagnosed with attention-deficit–hyperactivity disorder

In this podcast, Editor in Chief of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Dr Peter Baxter, looks at the following paper published in the March 2011 issue of the journal: ‘Perinatal, maternal, and fetal characteristics of children diagnosed with attention-deficit–hyperactivity disorder: results from a population-based study utilizing the Swedish Medical Birth Register’ by Peik Gustafsson (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden ) and Karin Källén (The Tornblad Institute of Reproductive Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden). This paper is discussed by Dr Peter Baxter, Peik Gustafsson, and Professor Bernard Dan, Department of Neurology, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. Read the paper here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03820.x/abstract