ADHD and brain scans Part 5

The diagnosis of ‘ADHD’ is, by all accounts, hugely controversial. Therefore, it could reasonably be expected by anyone of average intelligence that, if current brain scan technology was truly capable of determining the presence (or otherwise) of this so-called ‘brain disease’, every doctor on the planet would be USING IT!

But, they’re not.

According to Australian psychologist Rosemary Boon, of Learning Discoveries Psychological Services:

“Paediatricians and psychiatrists make a diagnosis of ADHD based on teacher and parent questionnaires (The Child Behavior Checklist; The Child Attention Problems Scale; The ADHD Rating Scale; The School Situations Questionnaire, and The Connors Teacher Rating Scale-Revised).”

http://home.iprimus.com.au/rboon/EarlyInterventionInquiry.htm

Now, THAT’S about as UN-scientific as you could get. It’s certainly a state of affairs that should set alarm bells ringing for all right-minded people. Especially when you take into consideration how LAUGHABLE are the diagnostic criteria to begin with!!

But, what adds injury to insult for many people involved in the case against ‘ADHD’ is that the extremely dubious methods used to ‘diagnose’ it are most often followed by methods of treatment that are equally questionable.

Let’s find out a bit more now about Ritalin and the other ‘psychostimulants’ that are so abundantly prescribed in the treatment of children diagnosed with ‘ADHD’.

Next, Ritalin

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