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yanww
03-12-06, 07:15 PM
I'm a psychiatrist in Shanghai, China. I've developed a lot of diagnostic tool for ADHD, each has 0.8-0.9 sensitivity and specificity. The first one is Attention Test. I've developed a method to test the attention ability of the testee, and now it has been set as a procedure on a PC, and the testee can hear a voive reading the numbers showed on the screen of PC, and then he can check which is read wrong and at last the software can give a record and a result. If the score is larger than 10, the testee is ADHD. the sensitivity and specificity are 0.8 to 0.9
The second one is called Turning Hang Test. Let the testee sit at the table, and put the hands close together on the edge, then turn to palm up position but still close together. If the testee is ADHD, he has to move his whole arm during the turning of hands from palm up to palm down.
The third is called Acetylcholine Dermal Test. Intradermally injecting a dilute solution of acetylcholine into the forearm of the testee as a small bump, the skin of normal child will show a large area of 'goose-skin', while that of ADHD will show nothing.

mctavish23
03-12-06, 07:31 PM
Welcome to the Forum.

Thank you for sharing those data.

I would hope that you'd please submit your findings to one of the peer reviewed journals that regularly report ADHD research.

Some of those (This isn't meant to be an all inclusive list . It's just those I can think of off the top of my head) include the following:

CHILD NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

PEDIATRICS ( Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics)

JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY

NEUROSCIENCE

There are a great many more, but these are the one's I can recall without digging into a reference list.


Thank you and good luck.

Kokomo
03-12-06, 07:54 PM
If you have the first test on the web, many of us confirmed ADD'ers would be willing to "test" your test.

meadd823
03-18-06, 01:31 PM
If you have the first test on the web, many of us confirmed ADD'ers would be willing to "test" your test.

I could take the test on and off medications. I wonder if it would do the same thing as those Briggs and Myers test do?.....My personally scores change!!!!

By the way welcome to the forums yanww

mindful
04-25-06, 09:32 AM
Hello - is this test available on the internet or as a download? Thanks for you research