Thank you for bringing this up. A comments box on substack is not the place to adequately discuss ADHD and its treatment. AND its diagnosis. Ugh, I don't even know where to start. Personal story: my brother had what appeared to be all the symptoms of ADHD. But it turned out to be borderline personality disorder, something hard to d…
Thank you for bringing this up. A comments box on substack is not the place to adequately discuss ADHD and its treatment. AND its diagnosis. Ugh, I don't even know where to start. Personal story: my brother had what appeared to be all the symptoms of ADHD. But it turned out to be borderline personality disorder, something hard to diagnose and hard for all acquaintances of that person to live with. I do think there is important evidence that ADHD is over diagnosed. I think that there is so much to be learned in the chemistry of the brain. I did research for 9 years, through my PhD, on various mechanisms and, as a biophysicist, I couldn't touch all that was going on. I was more interested in the functional electronic signal processing anyway. But I think the way the biosciences plans for and researches neuro-biophysical-defects like ADHD is all wrong. My primary profession was semiconductor manufacturing, and I would say that engineering approaches, (ChemE, BioE, QualityE, Risk Statistical Engineering etc) would be much more productive in both analyzing the causes and finding systemic cures. The 3-D modelling tools, etc will certainly help, but all the engineering professions are into that anyway. I've worked on the pure bio side of research for several years, and there is just a kind of approach that I don't think lends itself to doing research on syndromes like ADHD. For one thing, bio- types can't do bayesian and poisson math. They can't use the extant important representation tools like UML to model and then quickly build software. But do you think funding would be available for a cross disciplinary team with an engineering protocol to work the problem? Not with Pharmas and government orgs beholding to Pharmas in control of funding. I have lived through the era of the big dreamers that made big breakthroughs, and, half jokingly, I think this is an Elon Musk problem.
Thank you for bringing this up. A comments box on substack is not the place to adequately discuss ADHD and its treatment. AND its diagnosis. Ugh, I don't even know where to start. Personal story: my brother had what appeared to be all the symptoms of ADHD. But it turned out to be borderline personality disorder, something hard to diagnose and hard for all acquaintances of that person to live with. I do think there is important evidence that ADHD is over diagnosed. I think that there is so much to be learned in the chemistry of the brain. I did research for 9 years, through my PhD, on various mechanisms and, as a biophysicist, I couldn't touch all that was going on. I was more interested in the functional electronic signal processing anyway. But I think the way the biosciences plans for and researches neuro-biophysical-defects like ADHD is all wrong. My primary profession was semiconductor manufacturing, and I would say that engineering approaches, (ChemE, BioE, QualityE, Risk Statistical Engineering etc) would be much more productive in both analyzing the causes and finding systemic cures. The 3-D modelling tools, etc will certainly help, but all the engineering professions are into that anyway. I've worked on the pure bio side of research for several years, and there is just a kind of approach that I don't think lends itself to doing research on syndromes like ADHD. For one thing, bio- types can't do bayesian and poisson math. They can't use the extant important representation tools like UML to model and then quickly build software. But do you think funding would be available for a cross disciplinary team with an engineering protocol to work the problem? Not with Pharmas and government orgs beholding to Pharmas in control of funding. I have lived through the era of the big dreamers that made big breakthroughs, and, half jokingly, I think this is an Elon Musk problem.