AI model identifies ADHD risk years before diagnosis using health records

Millions of children with ADHD go years without diagnosis, missing early support opportunities that significantly impact long-term academic, social, and health outcomes.

For millions of children, an ADHD diagnosis arrives only after years of quiet struggle — after the classroom has already rendered its verdict and the child has already absorbed it. Researchers at Duke University have trained an artificial intelligence on the medical histories of more than 140,000 children, teaching it to recognize, as early as age five, the subtle patterns that precede a diagnosis that might otherwise not come for years. The tool does not presume to replace the clinician's judgment, but rather to ensure that fewer children are rendered invisible by the gaps in a system too pre

AI model identifies ADHD risk years before diagnosis using health records

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