Was he ever diagnosed with a learning disability or a behavioural disorder?
Similar findings were reported for children suffering from certain types of epilepsy, some reading defects, tics, and behavioural disorders.
Personality disorder is the parental diagnosis most associated with emotional and behavioural disorders in children, particularly when they have been exposed to hostile behaviour.
Diogenes' name has been applied to a behavioural disorder characterised by involuntary self-neglect and hoarding.
The Herts-based social enterprise has since successfully used the pioneering system to help children suffering from the behavioural disorder to learn to control their symptoms.
They may well provide insight and help for other behavioural disorders but not for addictive disease as such.
Chapter V focuses on "mental and behavioural disorders" and consists of 10 main groups:
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The children that are helped often have mental, physical or sensory disabilities, or have behavioural or psychological disorders.
However this is a controversial area, and conventional allergists do not seem eager to welcome behavioural disorders such as hyperactivity into their domain.