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Involuntary Eye Movement a Foolproof Indication for ADHD Diagnosis
- mikevm 12y agoPaper here (paywalled): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698914001187 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698914...
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoThe conclusions of the summary are vague. ADHD most frequently mis-diagnosed; then they test people 'diagnosed with ADHD'. How are we to be sure they were in the correct group? Then they tested folks on and off Ritalin. Those off Ritalin showed less of the eye movements they were testing for. This they extrapolated as proof that Ritalin works to treat ADHD and is not a placebo. Circular reasoning of a sort I am baffled to explain. Perhaps the eye movement is a spurious irrelevant symptom; then Ritalin's effectiveness for ADHD is completely disconnected from that finding.