What would Karl Popper say? Are current psychological theories of ADHD falsifiable?

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common and highly heritable neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorder. Here, we critically review four major psychological theories of ADHD – the Executive Dysfunction, the State Regulation, the Delay Aversion and the Dynamic Developmental – on thei...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Katherine A, Wiersema, Jan R, Kuntsi, Jonna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19257888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-9081-5-15
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description Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common and highly heritable neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorder. Here, we critically review four major psychological theories of ADHD – the Executive Dysfunction, the State Regulation, the Delay Aversion and the Dynamic Developmental – on their abilities to explain all the symptoms of ADHD, their testability and their openness to falsification. We conclude that theoreticians should focus, to a greater extent than currently practiced, on developing refutable theories of ADHD.
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spelling pubmed-26549022009-03-13 What would Karl Popper say? Are current psychological theories of ADHD falsifiable? Johnson, Katherine A Wiersema, Jan R Kuntsi, Jonna Behav Brain Funct Review Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common and highly heritable neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorder. Here, we critically review four major psychological theories of ADHD – the Executive Dysfunction, the State Regulation, the Delay Aversion and the Dynamic Developmental – on their abilities to explain all the symptoms of ADHD, their testability and their openness to falsification. We conclude that theoreticians should focus, to a greater extent than currently practiced, on developing refutable theories of ADHD. BioMed Central 2009-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2654902/ /pubmed/19257888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-9081-5-15 Text en Copyright © 2009 Johnson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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