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Abstract
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects children and teens and continue in to adulthood. It is the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder in children. Features of ADHD interfere with school and home life that may lead to stress for the children and the parents. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobiological syndrome that affects approximately 5% of school-aged children and has been recognized
under different names for more than a century ( Mahone, 2017).Although the etiology of ADHD is not fully understood, genetic and neurologic factors play important roles. Family studies have consistently higher rates of ADHD in parents and siblings of affected probands compared with relatives of unaffected controls and ADHD is associated with deficits in brain structure. Monozygotic twin pairs have much higher concordance rates for ADHD than dizygotic twin pairs (Tick et al., 2016).ADHD as other psychiatric disorders is treated with different lines of therapy, education either for the children or the parents with the nature of the disorders and the relations between them, behavioral therapy and pharmacological therapy.Children with ADHD consistently have higher rates of comorbidity than typically developing children. The type of comorbidity varies and includes learning problems, anxiety disorders, unipolar and bipolar mood disorders, conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder and substance use disorders (Jensen., 2015). Reported data from the National Co morbidity Study Replication, indicated that 32% of ADHD patients meet criteria for unipolar epression (Sepehrmanesh., 2017).Depression in pre-pubertal children rates differ little between boys and girls. Levels then begin to rise in the early teens, more sharply in girls than in boys (Tseng et al., 2015). Gajre et al., (2016) added that children and young adolescents with depression may have difficulty in properly identifying and describing their internal emotional or mood states. For example, instead of communicating how bad they feel, they may act out and be irritable toward others, which may be interpreted simply as misbehavior or disobedience.
This study was conducted aiming to find out the prevalence of co-morbid major depression with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), to throw light on correlation between Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) subtypes and Depressive symptoms and to study some different factors and their corelation between depression and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).