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"If psychiatry aspires to be scientific, on a par with other branches of medicine, how can it be content with this peculiar practice of delineating the outlines
by cafebeen 11y ago
"If psychiatry aspires to be scientific, on a par with other branches of medicine, how can it be content with this peculiar practice of delineating the outlines of a disease by a drug treatment?"
Sigh, there is plenty of scientific evidence of a biological basis of ADHD, i.e. genetic and neuroimaging studies:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22306277 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22306277
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDliT0GZpE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDliT0GZpE
Of course, we don't know what is causing these differences, and false positives are a real problem, but the misinformation in this article is very irresponsible