During the past 50 years, health insurance providers and national registers of mental health regularly report significant increases in the number of mental disorder diagnoses in children …
Evidence is mounting that medicine is harming healthy people through ever earlier detection and ever wider definition of disease. With the announcement of an international conference …
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most controversial and misunderstood medical conditions today. With skyrocketing rates of diagnosis and …
TJ Layton, ML Barnett, TR Hicks… - New England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Younger children in a school grade cohort may be more likely to receive a diagnosis of attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than their older peers because …
SM Snyder, TA Rugino, M Hornig… - Brain and behavior, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study is the first to evaluate an assessment aid for attention‐ deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) according to both Class‐I evidence standards of …
ER Coon, RA Quinonez, VA Moyer, AR Schroeder - Pediatrics, 2014 - publications.aap.org
Overdiagnosis occurs when a true abnormality is discovered, but detection of that abnormality does not benefit the patient. It should be distinguished from misdiagnosis, in …
Background Financial ties between health professionals and industry may unduly influence professional judgments and some researchers have suggested that widening disease …
We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's cognitive development from ages 6 to 18 using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and …
AV Pedersen, TK Aune, T Dalen, H Lorås - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The relative age effect (RAE) is a statistical bias observed across sport contexts and consists of a systematic skewness in birth date distribution within an annual-age cohort. In soccer …