ADHD

Psychology (Humanities), 1963

Boredom. The inability of advertising-soaked, sugar-addicted children to restrain their enormous levels of natural energy into a single position in a chair to listen to things they could not care less about.

In 1963, psychologist Keith Conners published a study on the effects of Ritalin (methylphenidate) in “emotionally disturbed children” and their impulsivity. After 50+ years of pharmaceutical profiteering, he publicly confessed he felt “the over-diagnosis of ADHD was “an epidemic of tragic proportions”. In 1971, R. A. Dykman et al published “Progress in Learning Disabilities”.

• https://oed.com/view/Entry/12802#eid34615136
• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=ADHD
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=ADHD
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• https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1964-07558-001
• https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED020605