REVIEW ABOUT COMORBIDITIES OF BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLE- SCENTS: THE FOCUS ON ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER

BEATRICE GALLAI^1*, VITTORIA VALENTINI^1*, FRANCESCA BARBANERA^1*, ROSA MAROTTA², FRANCESCO LAVANO², SERENA MARIANNA LAVANO³, AGATA MALTESE⁴, GABRIELE TRIPI^5,6, PALMIRA ROMANO⁷, MARGHERITA SALERNO⁸

¹Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy - ²Department of Medical and Surgery Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy - ³Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy - ⁴Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁵Department PROSAMI, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁶Childhood Psychiatric Service for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, CH Chinon, France - ⁷Clinic of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Mental Health and Physical and Preventive Medicine; Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy - ⁸Sciences for Mother and Child Health Promotion, University of Palermo, Italy

Disruptive behaviour disorders (DBD) present high comorbidity rate mainly for opposite-defiant disorders that are frequent among children, adolescents and adults affected by with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), probably as result of common temperamental risk factors such as attention, distraction, impulsivity. ADHD tend to manifest in about 50% of individuals diagnosed as disruptive behavioural disorders.