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Well, one doctor is now making the shocking claim that it could be, in part, because of changes in educational policy. could schools be overdiagnosing students to arrive at better test scores? joining me is co-author of the adhd professor at u.c. berkeley, dr. shep ler, thank you for coming on this morning. >> good morning. >> so basic will i tl basicallye incredible rise is one in five boys is getting the adhd diagnosis. is that real? or is there another reason for the diagnoses? >> adhd is a real thing, no doubt, but there's no blood test. there is no x-ray. and so measuring it has a degree ...

Random phone dial and asked if their child had ever been diagnosed with adhd. and that's the reported numbers that we discussed in our book. and that's why we called the book "the adhd explosion." >> it's remarkable. so you describe the role that schools play, that education policy plays in this increase in adhd, how does that work? >> well, doctor hensha and i in trying to understand the rates of increase and the explosion, you talked about looking to a number of different reasons why this might happen. and the one that jumped out in explaining most of the challenge and the variations, though...

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