New York Magazine (1/21) reports that “according to a study in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder” increased “55 percent for girls between 2003 and 2011.” Similar to “autism, early research on AD/HD focused heavily on young white boys; just one percent of research focuses on girls.” According to New York Magazine, this “means the American Psychiatric Association’s guidelines for AD/HD were male-centric – only recently did the diagnosis criteria change from symptoms being noticeable by age 7 to age 12, to account for the later onset in girls.
Related Links:
— “Why More Girls — and Women — Than Ever Are Now Being Diagnosed With ADHD,” Tanya Basu, New York Magazine, January 20, 2016.