henry hoffman published a book called the history of the unruly philip.octor didn’t know then which describes the symptoms. add, and the prototype of the protagonist of the narrative was his own son. the first person to most accurately describe the true clinical picture of adhd was the english pediatrician george steele in 1902. the doctor spoke about the problem of excessive emotional arousal in children under 8 years old and called this phenomenon a defect in moral control. later, cohen's theory confirmed the steele hypothesis; these scientists considered the problem with dvg to be biological, which. meant a disorder - this is a consequence of a disruption in the functioning of the nervous system. in the forties of the past century, the term “minimal cerebral dysfunction” was included in abehod. scientists then described the totality of the child’s behavioral reactions, restlessness, sleep disturbance, inattention, and said that they went slightly beyond the established norms, this was due to the peculiarities of the development of the nervous system. f