Children are non-existent disease

German scientists from the Ruhr University argue that physicians are too often put children diagnosed with "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder" (ADHD). Researchers in the study interviewed over 1,000 child and adolescent psychotherapists and psychiatrists across Germany about what they are guided, putting children diagnosed with ADHD. Western psychiatrists provided another proof that this disorder does not exist and children are treated with psychotropic medications in vain.

German and American article questioning the standard methods of diagnosis of attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity were on the eve published in reputable scientific journals, thereby confirming a half-century (1970's) skepticism of experts, pediatricians and parents in methods of treatment, and the very existence of the syndrome .

Aspiring find out The extent to which physicians in the diagnosis of ADHD are guided by scientific criteria of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), they offer thousands of children's therapists diagnose and recommend treatment based on the to send them by mail a personal file with a description of the symptoms. Eskperty made four versions of the file. One fully satisfy ten criteria by which children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD, writes gazeta.ru . Three other cases are kept mixed with a description of the symptoms are only partially coincident with this list. Based on the responses it found that in ambiguous cases 16, 7% therapists put children diagnosed with ADHD.

It turned out that doctors often found the disorder in boys and girls with the same symptoms put other diagnoses. According to the researchers, three of the four cases, respondents voiced misdiagnosed notes medicinform.net .

Experts believe that doctors often do not adhere to certain criteria of the disease, since about their concretization is still debate in the scientific world. All this leads to the fact that children living with ADHD and false accept strong drugs for its treatment.

The problem is studied only in Germany, but scientists believe that this situation has occurred in other developed countries.

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Healthy Child

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