Today's conference has three main objectives: first, to help physicians look at the hyperactive child in terms of subtypes rather than as a homogeneous group; second, to reaffirm that brain damage is the least common cause of hyperactivity and should be our last consideration; third, to put the drug approach to hyperactivity in some perspective.
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