August 18, 2011
Blurb
n ADHD expert, Dr. Bradley Peterson, agreed that the new findings most likely indicate an increase in diagnosis rather than an increase in the actual occurrence of the disorder.
“A lot of things will affect diagnosis,” said Peterson, chief of child psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center. “That can be anything from an increasing awareness of the condition to increasing access to health care – doctors can’t diagnose a child with ADHD if the child doesn’t get to see the doctor.”
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