Doctors have described symptoms that might now be categorised as ADHD for several hundred years.
In 1798, the Scottish physician Sir Alexander Crichton noted “mental restlessness” and “the fidgets” in some children. In 1902, the paediatrician Sir George Frederic Still wrote in The Lancet about an “abnormal defect of moral control in children”…
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The rise of ADHD
