Computer-based ADHD assessment

1- minute summary: A new ADHD tool is being investigated in the UK prison population for the first time.

Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London are using the computer-based QbTest; an objective test to assist in the accurate diagnosis of ADHD in young adult inmates.

QbTest is the first system that has been cleared by both the FDA and European authorities to be used in children and adults.

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