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the misdiagnosis od ADD
Title: the misdiagnosis od ADD
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the misdiagnosis od ADD
The Misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder
ADD is a disorder that is very challenging to diagnose because the symptoms can be varying in number and intensity can show a positive diagnosis. Even the official scale of DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders); created and updated by the American Medical Association; can be questioned for validity. In the past ten years there have been many studies done on the problems of over-diagnosis and over-prescription. …showed first 75 words of 841 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 841 total…Adolescent Psychiatry V.39 N.3, March 2000
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