When the National Institute of Health held a special conference concerning the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in 1998, they issued a summary statement of their findings. They concluded there is no independent, valid test to diagnose ADHD. This means there is no objective measurement for diagnosing ADHD. You cannot draw blood and find it. You can not perform a CT scan and see it. There is nothing you can objectively find to prove a diagnosis of ADHD. Nothing has changed. There is still [2008] no proof of disease.
David M. Tyler, Ph.D and Kurt P. Grady, Pharm.D, ADHD: Deceptive Diagnosis, p. 13
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