It would be better for us if the ADHD research community realized that “This is carelessness, stupidity” and to pay more attention to carelessness. While more researchers from the ADHD community come to understand that ADHD represents many different ways, after all, it is the inattention that causes the most damage to people's lives. This is particularly problematic, since there are no studies on the most effective treatments for inattention.
Much effort has been thought about how ADHD is classified, and some researchers have suggested that the symptoms of ADHD should not be evaluated as subtypes at all, but rather by determining which symptom causes the greatest disability. When ADHD is measured in this way, the researchers agree that it is inattention, which is the hallmark of ADHD.
I could imagine that you could get a disability assessment, where every person diagnosed with has a rating that shows how to turn off their symptoms of hyperactivity, inattention, impulsive behavior and slowness. If you scored ADHD in this way, the most obvious symptom for most people with ADHD, in terms of a general deterioration in life and in school, would be inattention.
To date, researchers have focused on treating hyperactivity and impulsive behavior. Dr. Xiaobo Lee, Mary Kelly, and Arian Srubek, at Albert Einstein Medical School, say in the latest Neuroscience newsletter that the inattention to patients with ADHD is often not taken into account. They report that “attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with a long-term effect on the functioning, productivity and quality of life of patients, which is largely associated with symptoms of inattention. life of patients with ADHD, inattention was studied relatively less frequently than the symptoms of impulsivity / hyperactivity and problems with executive function. " In conclusion, it is concluded that additional research needs to be completed in order for the researchers to come to a "complete understanding of the role that inattention plays in ADHD."
The rational reason why hyperactivity and impulsive behavior is studied more than inattention is that these symptoms are “dangerous for you”, and “dangerous behavior”, such as reckless driving and unsafe health-related behavior, inattention is more covertly destructive and less obvious.
I believe that because more attention is given to adult ADHD, a disorder where inattention prevails and where hyperactivity and impulsive behavior are less problematic, additional research dollars will extend to studying this symptom and to study how best to consider this problem with disabling .
