New symptoms for ADHD diagnosis: "In a published ''pros and cons'' list about the additional symptoms, the committee said they were "not empirically derived" and had potential to decrease the accuracy of the criteria.
Melissa Raven, a psychiatric epidemiologist and policy analyst at Flinders University, in Adelaide, said that was an "absolutely damning statement".
"They have identified some problems then proceeded blithely on," she said.
Allen Frances, the chairman of the taskforce that produced the present edition of the DSM, said when they increased the number of symptoms they produced an ''epidemic'' of ADHD. They thought it would increase by 15 per cent, but it actually increased by 200 per cent."
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