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It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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or ADH-Wheee! if you really want to put a positive spin on it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was watching a video from dr berkely and he said its the only disorder that hits all factors of executive function.

Then he said adhd people can't do digitspan backwards so e went to try it and I was like 😦

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Just tried it and can't even get it right forward. Shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s a digitspan?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A test for working memory.

https://www.memorylosstest.com/digit-span/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't have ADHD and my upper limit for digits seems to be around 6.

[–] z500 4 points 1 year ago

It took a few tries, but if I memorize the numbers in chunks of 3, then 3, then 2 then it's a lot easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I believe 6 or 7 is the average across the whole population

[–] canihasaccount 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would be surprised if he said that, because that's blatantly incorrect:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00328/full (Table 2, for example).

Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder all produce or are associated with executive function impairments that are more severe than ADHD, and across various forms of EF. ADHD is the only one of those with its specific pattern of attentional and reward-related abnormalities, but broad EF deficits are common across forms of psychopathology.