How Danish Journalism Misleads About Psychiatry
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An article in a Danish newspaper from 14 April was very frustrating to read but was typical for the totally uncritical way…
An article in a Danish newspaper from 14 April was very frustrating to read but was typical for the totally uncritical way…
Vignette: Your 23-year-old male primary care patient went to a walk-in clinic after watching a TikTok video about ADHD. He was…
I began seriously researching ADHD in 2010 with the purchase of Barkley’s Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook…
A new study, published online in Therapeutics Initiative, finds that despite published, replicated evidence that the youngest…
A singular cutoff point for school entry results in age differences between children of the same grade. In many school systems…
Researchers in Finland (led by British ADHD expert Kapil Sayal), have verified that the youngest children in a class are more…
A new article, just published online in the journal Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, presents research suggesting that…
Healthcare professionals have suggested some medical conditions are being diagnosed too often, and are calling for action to…
On February 17, 2017, Lancet Psychiatry published a controversial article that claimed to have found brain differences between…
A new analysis published in the Medical Journal of Australia finds that school-aged children who are younger than their…
A few weeks ago I was drawing attention to the fact that some children diagnosed with ADHD do not have attention deficits.
But researchers say getting the diagnosis doesn't necessarily mean that these students have the disorder.
Lack of focus at school might be ADHD. Or it might be a function of being young for that grade.
A question that has recently exercised my mind since reading a bestselling and much applauded book by Atul Gawande, ‘The…
One in four of us will struggle with a mental illness this year, the most common being depression and anxiety. The upcoming…
If you're trying to fight fire, should you use fire?This, pretty much, is the question asked by a group of psychiatrists in a…
Earlier this year a major study of almost one million Canadian children found that rates of diagnosed ADHD - as well as use of…