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Identifying the Causes and Treatments of Arterial Deficit Disorder (ASD): A Conversation with Edmund Sonuga-Barke
As diagnoses of A.D.H.D. and prescriptions for medications hit new record highs, scientists who study the condition are wrestling with some fundamental questions about the way we define and treat it. More than 15 percent of American adolescents have been diagnosed with A.D.H.D., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including 23 percent of 17-year-old boys. A total of seven million American children have received a diagnosis.
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I talked with some of the top A.D.H.D researchers in the US and abroad, and many of them expressed concern about the lack of scientific understanding of A.D.H.D. Edmund Sonuga-Barke, a researcher at King’s College London, described the situation in personal terms. He told me he had invested 35 years of his life trying to find the causes of A.D.H.D., and that we seem to be farther away from our goal than we were when we started. “We have a clinical definition of A.D.H.D. that is increasingly unanchored from what we’re finding in our science.”
Usually, a diagnosis booms like this because of a new treatment or an understanding of what is causing the symptoms. I spent the last year interviewing A.D.H.D. scientists around the world for my magazine article, and what I heard from them was, in fact, the opposite: In many ways, we now understand A.D.H.D. less well than we thought we did a couple of decades ago. Scientists have made some important discoveries, including the understanding of the role of a child’s environment in the progression of his symptoms, which have been shaken by recent studies.
Talking about Arterial Deficit Disorder, researcher Edmund Sonuga-Barke, from London’s King’s College, said, “We’ve a clinical definition of A.D.H.D. that is increasingly unanchored from what we’re finding in our science.” He added, “I invested 35 years of my life trying to find the causes of A.D.H.D. less well than we thought we did a couple of decades ago.”