Excerpt from interesting BMJ linked obituary co-written by Allen Frances and by Connors, with primary focus on ADHD:
"Keith believed that the overdiagnosis and overmedication of millions of children resulted from aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies, careless doctoring, worried parents, and schoolroom chaos."
BMJ link: http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j2253
Describes his early work with Leon Eisenberg, then at the Hop.
In the 1980s it was interesting to watch and learn how Connors was focused on careful standardization of clinician examination protocols, with diagnostic cross-examination and workup, and to contrast the standardized questionnaire approach advocated by Tom Achenbach (with no cross-examination involved during assessment).
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