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Methylphenidate for ADHD in children and adolescents: throwing the baby out with the bathwater

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  • Tobias Banaschewski Department of Child Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jan Buitelaar Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Celine S L Chui Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David Coghill Department of Paediatrics and Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Samuele Cortese Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Faculty of Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Sciences (CNS and Psychiatry), University of Southampton, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Emily Simonoff Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ian C K Wong Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Research Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Emily Simonoff, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Box 85, DeCrespigny Park, London SE5 8LF, UK; emily.simonoff{at}kcl.ac.uk
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Banaschewski T, Buitelaar J, Chui CSL, et al
Methylphenidate for ADHD in children and adolescents: throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Evidence-Based Mental Health 2016;19:97-99.

Publication history

  • Received August 1, 2016
  • Accepted September 8, 2016
  • First published October 6, 2016.
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October 21, 2016

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