Mozart And Others Had ADHD - Has It Always Been A Disorder? Or Has The Modern Classification Of It Made It A Disorder?

A Canadian researcher working in the U.K. says doctors, authors and educators are doing hyperactive children a disservice by claiming that hyperactivity as we understand it today has always existed. Matthew Smith says not only is that notion wrong, it misleads patients, their parents and their physicians. Smith, who is from Edmonton, is finishing up his PhD at the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter.

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Filed under: ADHD on June 1st, 2009