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Older Girls With ADHD Have More Depression, Anxiety, Smarts:The researchers found that older girls, in contrast to younger ones, often internalized their feelings, were withdrawn, complained about their physical health, had social problems and showed symptoms of anxiety and depression.Studies on boys, in contrast, have suggested that depression and ADHD seem to develop independent of each other. According to Kato, this new study showed “the nature of the association between the course of theses two disorders in females is unclear” and should be studied.“Older girls with ADHD in our study also showed areas of strength,” Kato says. “We were able to identify a large proportion of older participants by their higher verbal IQ scores,” a finding she termed “unexpected because ADHD symptoms have been consistently associated with lower IQ scores, especially verbal IQ scores.”