New study claims ADHD 'has a genetic link'

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Child psychologist Oliver James: "These findings have been hyped in the most outrageous fashion"

Oliver James, a clinical child psychologist and broadcaster, cited studies which looked at the effect of anxiety among pregnant women, and disturbed early relations between mothers and their babies.
He said: "Only 57 out of the 366 children with ADHD had the genetic variant supposed to be a cause of the illness.
"That would suggest that other factors are the main cause in the vast majority of cases.
"Genes hardly explain at all why some kids have ADHD and not others."