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Chunk #10 — Materials and Methods — Subjects

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Further development of a neurobehavioral profile of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
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alcohol, as described above. Children were excluded from the CON group if they demonstrated clinical or subclinical symptoms of ADHD, as defined by the C-DISC-4.0. While the South African site did not recruit subjects with ADHD, control subjects were screened using a checklist based on DSM-IV criteria for ADHD and excluded if they exceeded the standard cutoff for possible ADHD. The ADHD group (n = 74) consisted of non-exposed children who met full DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for ADHD, based on the C-DISC-4.0. At each site, subjects were recruited from the local communities as described above and CON and ADHD subjects were recruited to match the AE subjects at that site.