The Pros And Cons Of ADHD Testing

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When testing an individual for ADHD a verity of different test are supposed to be administered. Before a diagnosis is made, an individual must meet the DMS-5 criteria for ADHD. However, certain forms of these test are considered to be problematic because they can be easily fabricated. “It isn’t like we can open someone's brain and look into it. Therefore we have to do a pretty extensive test.” Says Tkachuck. “We have to make a judgment call at some point, and like I said we use a lot of different methods when measuring ADHD, so hopefully that kind of weeds out a lot of individuals hoping to benefit from the perks of ADHD. It can be very hard though and misdiagnosis happen.” According to a research, article published The National Center

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