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> People thinking it’s not a real condition

Well it certainly does not help that ADHD diagnosis is closer to art than Science. There is probably a bunch of disorders that we just call ADHD for the lack of better tools.

Disclaimer: I used to work on drug dev for ADHD

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Do you think improved brain imaging could help with this, or is it still not precise enough?

Probably, but that will require a lot of testing and a lot of prior studies to occur before we can get there.

Isn't that true of an awful lot of conditions; "differential diagnosis"?

Yes, true for many conditions, but everything directly related to the nervous system becomes very complicated to diagnose with precision, because the brain still remains mostly a black box in terms of how it works and how it fails to work "normally". We are learning more and more constantly but it's still an area of very active research.

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