Carmen Keith Conners (March 20, 1933 – July 5, 2017) was an American psychologist, best known for establishing the first standards for the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
[1] Conners is credited by many as putting ADHD on the map in the USA.
In later years, he raised concerns about the high rates of diagnosis of ADHD in the United States as compared to Europe, and suggested that ADHD may be diagnosed too frequently in the US [2] He believed the true rates of childhood ADHD were 2-3%.
[3] Conners died on July 5, 2017, in Durham, North Carolina, aged 84.
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