儿童注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)应该受到关注 | 经济学人

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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读讲义 ADHD should not be treated as a disorder Adapting schools and workplaces for it can help far more The Economist Vaping Oct 30, 2024 | 574 words | ★★★★☆ Not long ago, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was thought to affect only school-aged boys—the naughty ones who could not sit still in class and were always getting into trouble. Today the number of ADHD diagnoses is rising fast in all age groups, with some of the biggest increases in young and middle-aged women. The figures are staggering. Some 2m people in England, 4% of the population, are thought to have ADHD, says the Nuffield Trust, a think-tank. Its symptoms often overlap with those of autism, dyslexia and other conditions that, like ADHD, are thought to be caused by how the brain develops. All told, 10-15% of children have patterns of attention and information-processing that belong to these categories. At the moment, ADHD is treated as someth ………………………………