ADHD Experts Fear Brain-Growth Study Being Misconstrued
Educators sat up and took notice last month when researchers published the results of a groundbreaking brain-imaging study suggesting that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder stems from delayed brain maturation.
National education and advocacy groups put the news on their Web sites, and The New York Times featured findings from that and another study in a front-page article. Implicit in some of the coverage was the hopeful idea that many—even most—children eventually grow out of the disorder.
But that’s not exactly true, according to the researcher who led the brain-imaging...
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