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[quote=Anonymous]Thought provoking article for sure. Boys are over diagnosed and over medicated, and their learnings outcomes don't improve over the long-term with stimulants, and as it turns out we don't know enough about what works, is what it seems to say.

However, I will say as a parent with a girl with ADHD, it's disappointing to once again read research that overlooks girls yet again.

I'm also not sure my takeaways are so concretely anti-meds, as others are.  On a personal note, medication has helped our teen daughter a lot with regulation which has helped enormously in every facet of her life.

Lots of switching meds and trial and error to find something that helped, and having to go off and on again due to side effects. But overall, being on meds has been so much better for her than times when she's off of them.

Also, I'm not sure why the reporter fixated on there being no biological markers for ADHD. I think our understanding of so many mental health and behavioral health conditions are so far behind our understanding of other medical conditions. We just seem to struggle when it comes to brain science.
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