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posted by on Sunday December 04 2016, @02:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the ants-in-your-pants dept.

This article from MedicalXpress reports on a different way of looking at ADHD:

Hyperactivity seems to be the result of not being able to focus one's attention rather than the other way around. This was proposed in an article in PLOS ONE, written by researchers at Radboud university medical center and Radboud University. It seems to suggest that more attention should be given to the AD than to the HD component.

ADHD is a combination of having difficulties with focusing one's attention (attention deficit, AD) and overly active, impulsive behaviour (hyperactivity disorder, HD). Interestingly enough, many people often struggle with a combination of both characteristics. Very often they are both easily distracted and impulsive, in other words, both AD and HD. "Which leads to the question of whether this involves a correlation, a coincidental combination, or perhaps a causal relation," states computer scientist Tom Heskes.

[...] "This causal relation was also suggested in early psychiatric literature," says psychiatrist Jan Buitelaar, "but as far as we know there was never any hard evidence supporting this claim. It's interesting to see that this mathematical approach enables us to talk with more certainty about a causal relation. And it would be even more interesting, for example, to study whether we can find a more neurological basis for that relation.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2016, @01:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2016, @01:44AM (#437043)

    I reread your post and see the chip is not on my shoulder. I in no way was trying to exclude or denigrate anyone who has the condition - just pointing out the ridiculous naming.

    I reread your most recent post and by reading between the lines I see:

    "I wont accept I am wrong"

    ADD and ADHD are not two diseases. One is the "old" name and the other is the new, official term as per the APA. There are three "sub-types" although it is debatable how useful these solely symptom-based classifications are - case in point the article above!
    Some people still use ADD due to the leftover terminology but they are not officially correct to do so.

    And again: diseases very very rarely are named after a symptom that only occurs 1/2 the time. And then only when someone makes a mistake. In this case they call it ADHD and then classify one of the major sub groups as not having the H.
    If you cannot understand why this is ridiculous then...well it matters not as I am sort of done with this conversation.

    The correct way to deal with it would have been to call it ADD and then specify the sub types as they are.

    But feel free to be angry and upset at me for pointing this out. You have committed to it now so you must see it to the end no matter what.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2016, @04:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2016, @04:21AM (#437058)

    I don't know why you are getting so worked up over the name (ADD vs. ADHD).
    That's all it is: a name. The only thing that matters is the diagnosis and treatment.
    I also don't know where your penchat for personal attacks comes from. That doesn't fall under ADD, does it? Maybe you have some comorbid disorder.