Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoIt shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.message-squaremessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1407arrow-down145file-text
arrow-up1362arrow-down1message-squareIt shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square141fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecanihasaccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-21 year 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
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