Eli5: Since the ADHD brain is developing in an abnormal way, why aren’t scientists trying to surgically fix the brain’s abnormal structure?

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Eli5: Since the ADHD brain is developing in an abnormal way, why aren’t scientists trying to surgically fix the brain’s abnormal structure?

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It’s happening at a microscopic scale all over the brain, so fixing it surgically isn’t really an option. Also surgery almost always carries some risks, so it’s kinda the thing you do in medicine when nothing else works well enough.

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