This massive over-diagnosing has been discovered by researchers in Taiwan, a region of the world that has regularly diagnosed 15 per cent fewer cases of ADHD than the West.
After looking at data of 378,881 children aged from four to 17, the researchers found that ADHD is a problem that seems to affect only pre-school children. The older children probably didn’t have ADHD, but were just behaving immaturely, they said.
It could also be that children grow out of ADHD as they reach school years, and the change can happen in just a few months or so.
(Source: Journal of Pediatrics, 2016; doi: 10.1016/j.peds.2016.02.012)
