Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.
Madrigal@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We’ve known that this isn’t true since 2005:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S000632230500171X
In addition, plenty of other disorders show worse executive function than ADHD:
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/…/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:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/…/1087054714558872
www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01758-0
Note that both poorer information processing and reward processing dysfunction can produce poorer performance on executive function tasks, too.