Calling for a better diagnosis of so-called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is like asking the swindlers to make the Emperor’s new clothes out of better material.

Experts from across the world are due to discuss the issue of suicide at a special conference in Killarney, Co Kerry, this week.

China today denied imprisoning dissidents in mental hospitals, but did not say whether it would grant a demand by the world’s leading psychiatric association to inspect them.