Overdiagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a systematic scoping review

L Kazda, K Bell, R Thomas, K McGeechan… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Reported increases in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses
are accompanied by growing debate about the underlying factors. Although overdiagnosis is …

Do we over‐diagnose ADHD in North America? A critical review and clinical recommendations

A Gascon, D Gamache, D St‐Laurent… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There has been a marked increase in the prevalence of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) in the last 25 years in North America. Some see this trend as positive and …

ADHD in the DSM-5-TR: what has changed and what has not

A Koutsoklenis, J Honkasilta - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In this article, we critically review the changes made to the DSM-5 Text Revision published
in 2022 regarding the diagnostic entity of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) …

Association of relative age in the school year with diagnosis of intellectual disability, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and depression

A Root, JP Brown, HJ Forbes, K Bhaskaran… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Young relative age within the school year has previously been associated with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis and, based on limited evidence …

Relative age and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Data from three epidemiological cohorts and a meta-analysis

A Caye, S Petresco, AJD de Barros, RA Bressan… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the effect of relatively younger age on attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) symptoms and diagnosis through three population-based cohorts and a …

Gender-and age-stratified analyses of ADHD medication use in children and adolescents in Finland using population-based longitudinal data, 2008–2018

M Vuori, A Koski-Pirilä, JE Martikainen… - … journal of public …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: This study examined medication use for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
among children and adolescents by gender in Finland during 2008–2018. Methods …

ADHD and reification: Four ways a psychiatric construct is portrayed as a disease

S Te Meerman, JE Freedman, L Batstra - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The descriptive classification Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is
often mistaken for a disease entity that explains the causes of inattentive and hyperactive …

Why mental disorders are brain disorders. And why they are not: ADHD and the challenges of heterogeneity and reification

S Schleim - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Scientific attempts to identify biomarkers to reliably diagnose mental disorders have thus far
been unsuccessful. This has inspired the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) approach …

Family spillover effects of marginal diagnoses: The case of ADHD

P Persson, X Qiu, M Rossin-Slater - 2021 - nber.org
The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the
allocation of screenings and in diagnostic processes. At the same time, an emerging …

Association between relative age at school and persistence of ADHD in prospective studies: an individual participant data meta-analysis

CJ Gosling, S Caparos, C Pinabiaux… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The youngest children in a school class are more likely than the oldest to be
diagnosed with ADHD, but this relative age effect is less frequent in older than in younger …