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Childhood ADHD was associated with higher rates of adult psychiatric and neurologic hospitalization in a Finnish birth cohort followed into adulthood, while most somatic health outcomes showed little evidence of a sustained association.

Testimony from a psychiatrist in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has highlighted how clinical documentation, incomplete information, and retrospective interpretation of psychiatric records can become central evidence in legal proceedings without resolving underlying questions of diagnosis or criminal responsibility.