Is functional neuroimaging currently useful in the diagnosis of adult attention-deficit disorder?
is director of the Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine in Fairfield, Calif. NO There is little doubt that functional neuroimaging has the potential to aid in the diagnosis of ADD and to assist us in evaluating treatments in individuals. But we’re not there yet. It is fairly well accepted that abnormalities in frontal-striatal circuitry exist in ADD.
