How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD

2015-05-05T17:15:17+00:00

Some experts say the normal effects of severe adversity may be misdiagnosed as ADHD. Dr. Nicole Brown’s quest to understand her misbehaving pediatric patients began with a hunch. Brown was completing her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, when she realized that many of her low-income patients had been diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder [...]