"ADHD is a ficticous disease"

[Trapper John]

Dr. Saul makes a valid point. The basic problem is, however, that there is no definitive diagnostic test for ADHD or for other brain related disorders for that matter except perhaps for Parkinson's Disease. The best medical science can do is make a diagnosis based upon symptomology and psychometric testing. Treatments are even more limited and essentially amount to trial and error experimentation on each patient. Until such time as we have better imaging technology and can develop cell culture techniques to evaluate neurological function in the laboratory at the molecular biology level, there will be no other alternative.

To say that ADHD is a fictitious disease is doing a great disservice to those that suffer from these real and disabling symptoms. JMHO