ADHD IS being “underdiagnosed” in the UK leaving millions without support, a major review concluded today. Doctors have ...

A study from the University of Toronto found prescription numbers for ADHD have doubled in Canada since the pandemic started, ...

There are now 2.6 million people in the UK with ADHD – and diagnoses are on the rise. Looking at 18 years of anonymised NHS patient records, researchers at University College London noted a 20-fold ...

“There is no evidence that ADHD is over-diagnosed in the UK. Indeed, available data point to under-diagnosis,” they wrote.

Diagnoses of autism and other neurodivergence are rising. Jessica Eccles and Elizabeth Weir say that the trend is real—and that claims of “overdiagnosis” and insistence on exact case numbers are ...

Experts say ADHD is not over-diagnosed in the UK, citing under-diagnosis and long NHS waits as bigger challenges, according to new research ...

In the United Kingdom, adults with diagnosed attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are living significantly shorter lives than the general population, likely due to modifiable risk ...

Five take-home messages for GPs on the recognition and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in ...

IT WAS by chance that Annabel Fenwick Elliott got the ADHD diagnosis she’d desperately needed as a child, when she was aged ...

Experts are warning that far from being over diagnosed, people with ADHD are waiting too long for assessment, support and treatment. In a paper, published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry, a ...

Alarmist’ rhetoric around overdiagnosis of the condition could ‘deny’ people the care they need, a team of experts has warned ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...