Lily Hechtman, PhD
Lily Hechtman is a professor of psychiatry and
pediatrics at McGill University and director of research, Division of
Child Psychiatry and currently acting Head of the Division of Child
Psychiatry. She is a child psychiatrist and an internationally
recognized researcher in ADHD. Dr. Hechtman’s research has focused
on long-term (15 year) prospective studies of children with ADHD
followed into adolescence and adulthood. Dr. Hechtman is a recipient of
the prestigious CHADD Hall of Fame Award.
Session: FR1-Research Symposium I-Girls with
ADHD, Montreal Study, Milwaukee Study
Ideas behind the Berkeley Girls ADHD
Longitudinal Study (BGALS), which began in the 1990s will be discussed.
Then findings from the childhood, adolescent, and young adult phases of
this study, which involves the largest cohort of childhood-diagnosed
girls with ADHD in existence, 95% of whom have been followed through a
mean age of 20 will be discussed.Discussion of (a) means of retaining
long-term samples and (b) differences between long-term outcomes in this
study and those of males with ADHD--which include, for BGALS, a
strikingly high rate of suicidal and self-injurious behavior in late
adolescence and young adulthood.
The presentation will also describe the
Montreal Longitudinal Study which followed children with ADHD and normal
matched controls prospectively for 15 years from mean age 8 to 26 years.
Different adult outcomes will be described, as well as factors which
influence these outcomes.
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