Christmas Quiz

A. The nitty gritty – medical conceptualisation and treatment of ADHD

1) What does the DSM in DSM-IV (the influential American guide to diagnosis often used in Europe to guide ADHD diagnosis) stand for? (2)

a) Diagnostic, Standardised Manual of Mental Disorders

b) Dictionary of Symptoms of Mental Disorders

c) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

d) Dictionary of Symptoms of Medical Disorders

2) What is the acronym of the World Health Organisations equivalent to the DSM? (2)

3) According to the DSM-IV to meet diagnostic criteria for ADHD you need to have significant difficulties with two or more from the classical triad of symptoms

What are these three symptom groups- choose from: hyperactivity, distractibility, hypoactivity, executive functions, inattention, poor working memory, poor planning, poor social skills, and procrastination? (3)

4) For which of the problems below is there good evidence that they are increased in people with ADHD (1 point for each right, -1 point for each wrong)

a) Committing a violent crime

b)    Having children at a younger age

c)     Addictive behaviours

d)    Problems at work

e)     Being victims of violent street crime

f)     Driving problems

g)    Physical health problems

5) Which of the characteristics below have evidence suggesting increased ability in people with ADHD? (Dropped the ‘good’ as ADHD advantages rarely studied by more than one researcher, whether or not ADHD has an advantage, there is no large body of evidence)(1 point for each right, -1 point for each wrong)

a)     Emotional intelligence

b)    Creativity

c)     Self transcendence (a character trait associated with spirituality and humbleness)

d)    Integrative complexity

e)     Autobiographical memory

f)     Short term memory

g)    Incidental memory

h)    Use of incidental memory in problem solving

6) Who is associated with the ‘hunters-farmers’ model of ADHD? (2)

7) The NICE guidelines on ADHD  (we gold standard UK guidelines) recommend   medication as a first line treatment for adults unless the adult themselves prefer a psychological approach.  (Contrasting with recommendations for children with moderate ADHD in which psychological treatments are recommended as the first line treatment approach, unless parents wish otherwise)

8)What reason did they give? (2)

a)     Psychological approaches have been shown to be ineffective in adults

b)    There is a lack of research into the efficacy of psychological approaches for adults

c)     Medication is cheaper than psychological approaches

B. History of ADHD

1) ADHD has had many changes of name –give three former medical names for ADHD (1 mark for each name)

2) In which decade were stimulants first used to treat hyperactive children? (2)

a)     The 1900s

b)    The 1920s

c)     The 1930s

d)    The 1950s

e)     The 1970s

f)      The 1980s

3) What did Patrick Van Kiebohm do in 2007 after a Flemish judge dismissed a joint petition from three of his neighbours to stop his three children with ADHD playing outside? (2)

a) Key the neighbours’ cars

b) Write a novel about the incident

c) Throw a street party for his local ADHD group

d) Use it as material for a stand up comedy tour

e) Countersue his neighbours for hate crime

4) How did teenager with ADHD, Michael Fay cause an international furore in 1994? (3)

5) In which of these decades (from question 8) was Ritalin first licensed for hyperactive children?

a)     The 1900s

b)    The 1920s

c)     The 1930s

d)    The 1950s

e)     The 1970s

f)      The 1980s

6) Which International body made an embarrassing goof over ADHD, in 1999 following being lobbied by scientologists?

C.ADHD and culture

1) Which Shakespearean character excused himself for not answering the summons of the Lord Chief Justice Summons because he suffered from a  ‘ disease of not listening’ or a ‘ malady of not marking’. (2)

2) ADHD is not over diagnosed in Europe- But fictional characters exhibit a high rate of false diagnosis, ADHD symptoms often lasting only one episode. Name a character or group of characters diagnosed with one -Episode -ADHD (2)

3) Sometimes a character is misdiagnosed with ADHD when a superpower is misinterpreted. Which hero of a series of popular children’s books was told?

‘The ADHD-you’re impulsive, can’t sit still in a classroom. That’s your battlefield reflex. In a real fight, they’d keep you alive. As for your attention problems, that’s because you see too much, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortals”

4) Further, TV and film   characters are prone to striking medication side effects of an entertaining and salutary nature. Name such a character (1) and the side effects suffered (1)

(5) Which   three of these famous people has a confirmed diagnosis of ADHD? (3)

Russell Crowe, David Cassidy, Albert Einstein, Susan Boyle, Billy Connolly, Usain Bolt, Bart Peeters, Patrick Van Kiebohm, Oscar Schindler,

6) On what did Courtney Love blame Kurt Cobain's addiction to heroin? (2)

7) Was she right? Did your answer to the question above cause his addiction to heroin (1)? Give your reasoning (1)

8)The entity Kryon (through his human channeller, a businessman Lee Carroll) commented on the birth of increasing numbers of a new more advanced type of child into the human race. These children are often claimed by followers to be have been wrongly diagnosed with ADHD   

The children are known as

a) Indigo children

b) Rainbow children

c) Crystal children,

d) Metatranscedent children

e) Magenta children

ANSWERS

Stephanie Clark

Adult Anglophone ADHD group

Part of Aandacht, Belgium