The ADHD DSM-5 criteria is flawed for various reasons: It overemphasizes attention deficits and doesn’t focus enough executive function and self-regulation impairments. Current symptoms are also male-biased. Despite these flaws, clinicians can ensure more accurate diagnoses by following five recommenda...
Currently, the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is solely based on behavioral tests prescribed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5). However, biomarkers can be more objective and accurate for diagnosis and evalu...
published in theJournal of Psychiatry Research, said that the tool had “a relatively high level of reliability” at around 78 percent. Disorders such as ADHD and major depressive disorder were “more consistently diagnosed.”
The convergent validity for the new symptoms proposed in DSM-V is not as high as the symptoms derived from DSM-IV.CONCLUSIONS: The new added symptoms in DSM-V may falsely increase diagnosis of ADHD-hyperactive/impulsive type or combined type of ADHD.Ahmad Ghanizadeh...
DSM-5attention deficit/hyperactivitydiagnosisover-diagnosisover-medicalizationprevalenceThere has been a marked increase in the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the last 25 years in North America. Some see this trend as positive and believe that it reflects a better ...
We implement the VR contents to diagnose ADHD by using the Unity, which finds major ADHD characteristics by the ADHD categorization based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (DSM-5). We present the medical data engineering and security features in our diagnosis method to ...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition where affected children have problems with attention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity. The Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: fourth edition (DSM-IV) requires the presence of at least six out of nine ...