there are no peer-reviewed studies showing any of these cognitive training/neurofeedback-type treatments cure or have long-term effects on ADHD.
If this is true (and I'm assuming you're right) why is this the case? If medications have been around for 40+ years, surely this has been enough time for science based studies of non-medication alternatives?
Maybe that's why I read of some pediatricians using drugs to diagnose, because the answer is quicker that way.
I was told by our school district psychologist to medicate DS8 diagnostically. (You're right, it's probably much faster.) He said worst case scenario it would take about 6 months (assuming the first or second medication didn't work - by 6 months he meant that's about as long as you'd continue to try changing meds/doses that weren't working before you'd assume that it actually isn't ADHD).
