Track_Shovel to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agoIt shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.message-square130fedilinkarrow-up1389
arrow-up1389message-squareIt shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.Track_Shovel to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-squareMadrigallinkfedilinkEnglish12•2 years agoThis is true, and suggests maybe a broader recategorisation is in order. I’ve heard one expert suggest that while many disorders feature executive dysfunction, ADHD is executive dysfunction.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•edit-22 years agoWe’ve known that this isn’t true since 2005: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632230500171X In addition, plenty of other disorders show worse executive function than ADHD: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00328/full If executive dysfunction is your primary issue, that is not indicative of ADHD. ADHD is driven by reward processing dysfunction and slower information processing: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1087054714558872 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01758-0
This is true, and suggests maybe a broader recategorisation is in order.
I’ve heard one expert suggest that while many disorders feature executive dysfunction, ADHD is executive dysfunction.
We’ve known that this isn’t true since 2005:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632230500171X
In addition, plenty of other disorders show worse executive function than ADHD:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00328/full
If executive dysfunction is your primary issue, that is not indicative of ADHD. ADHD is driven by reward processing dysfunction and slower information processing:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1087054714558872
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01758-0