Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Kids are diagnosed with ADHD because they are acting like kids

Michigan - Nearly 1 million children may have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, not because they have real behavior problems, but because they’re the youngest kids in their kindergarten class, researchers say. Kids who are the youngest in their grades are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than the oldest children, according to a study out today from Michigan State University. Other researchers came to similar conclusions. ---...More

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