What Is Adhd

One Canadian researcher says that a shift in the culture, not a shift in the disease, is responsible for the rising number of ADHD diagnoses. Matthew Smith, a medical history researcher, says that trying to identify ADHD symptoms in famous people from history--such as Einstein and Mozart--is misleading and ultimately bad for parents and children. Smith says that hyperactivity was not viewed as a medical condition until the late 1950's, when school environments and educational expectations change... Read more »