"John H." <johnh at faraway.com.au> wrote in message news:<3fbd9960 at dnews.tpgi.com.au>...
> Another myth bites the dust, though the evidence of ADHD being a real
> condition has rarely been in dispute by those who read the research.
> Hopefully this finding will further our understanding of this condition,
> which I have no hope of understanding.
>>> John H.
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3284629.stm>> Scientists have found differences in the brains of children with
> attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
> University of California Los Angeles researchers found some areas of the
> brains of the children were smaller, and but others had more grey matter.
>> .....
I don't see how this actually moves the debate on - after all we
already knew children labelled ADHD were different, this just confirms
there is a difference *not* that there is a pathology. I think it is
still debatable whether all children currently diagnosed with ADHD
should be labelled as 'ill' or 'diseased'. I do not think the debate
is whether the childrens' behaviour is variant but whether it is
'abnormal' or 'pathological'. The more you categorise people the
narrower the definition of normal becomes.