Sunday, October 5, 2014

ADHD - "Not a Real Disease"

This article was published today:

ADHD Not a Real Disease, Says Leading Neuroscientist

The first few lines are my favorite: "One of the world’s leading pediatric neuroscientists, Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, recently stated publicly that Attention Deficit/Hyper-Activity Disorder (ADHD) is not ‘a real disease,’ and warned of the dangers of giving psycho-stimulant medications to children."  Like the article states, I believe it really is just a description of a wide range of symptoms that we all exhibit at times not a "disease."  Perhaps, most people who get diagnosed just have more of the symptoms or more intense.  It doesn't mean that ADHD doesn't exist or that medications will not improve behaviors.


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