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> As for ADHD, the man who first described the condition later confessed he fabricated the whole thing. What is that man's name?
by trehalose 4y ago
> As for ADHD, the man who first described the condition later confessed he fabricated the whole thing.
What is that man's name?
- 34679 4y agoDr. Leon Eisenberg
- mrtranscendence 4y agoEisenberg wasn't the first person who described the disease we know now as ADHD. In anti-ADHD circles he's called the "father of ADHD" or some other such epithet, and he clearly made significant research in the early days, but he was not the inventor nor the only one working on it.
- gruez 4y agoA quick search turns up https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/work-of-fiction/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/work-of-fiction/ >A software-based translation of that article from German to English does describe Dr. Eisenberg as the “father of ADHD” and report that during his “last interview” he said something similar to “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” However, when one allows for the vagaries of translation from German to English and reads the statement in context, it’s clear that Dr. Eisenberg wasn’t asserting that ADHD isn’t a real disorder, but rather that he thought the influence of genetic predispositions for ADHD (rather than social/environmental risk factors) were vastly overestimated [...]