Moog wrote:
Was just reading some NYT article about ADHD when I got to the end and read this:
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Increasingly, researchers are now referring to this condition as “sluggish cognitive tempo,” or S.C.T. The term refers to a constellation of symptoms that include daydreaming, being “spacey” or easily confused, mental fogginess, or being slow-moving, lethargic or less active than usual. My own recent research shows that S.C.T. is a separate and distinct disorder from A.D.H.D. that may have different causes and may not respond as well to the same treatments. It is less impairing than A.D.H.D. but can still be a troublesome attention disorder to have. The two disorders, A.D.H.D. and S.C.T., also overlap in about 20 percent of cases. Most of the time, though, they occur separately.
From the wiki page
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It has been roughly estimated that the SCT population may make up 30-50% (source?) of the ADHD-PI population. In many ways, those who have an SCT profile have the opposite symptoms of those with classic ADHD: instead of being hyperactive, extroverted, obtrusive, and risk takers, those with SCT are drifting, introspective and daydreamy, and feel as if "in the fog" (although in excited states, an SCT patient behaves very similarly to a traditional ADHD patient). They also don't have the same risk factors and outcomes. A key behavioral characteristic of those with SCT symptoms is that they are more likely to appear to be lacking motivation. They lack energy to deal with mundane tasks and will consequently seek things that are mentally stimulating because of their underaroused state, an intense craving for emotional and intellectual stimulation. Those with SCT symptoms show a qualitatively different kind of attention deficit that is more typical of a true information input-output problem, such as memory retrieval and active working memory, and display a wavering "up and down" mental pattern with extremely variable levels of intense thought, hyperactivity, failing memory, and sexual appetite. Conversely, those with the other two subtypes of ADHD are characteristically excessively energetic and have no difficulty processing information.[3]
I'm only just hearing this term for the first time to day, I wondered if anyone had anything to say on the difference between SCT, ADD, ADHD or any other terms you might have stumbled upon.
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ADHD Inattentive
vs
Petit/absence/TLE/complex partial (seizures)
Try to find a copy of the Nerves In Collision book by Walter C. Alvarez, M.D.
(about the many subtle epilepsies) and the How To (understand) Hyperactivity
book (1981) about ADHD Inattentive by C. Thomas Wild. Both books address ideas
such as paying attention, sustained attention, cognition, processing, processing speeds, and memory. Words: the many epilepsies (such as petit/absence/TLE/complex partial and so on), the 4 ADHDs, central auditory processing disorder (CAPD), hemiparesis (weakness, not
paralysis), dyspraxia, etc. Both of the above books (Alvarez, Wild) can provide
insights here and there (no cures). More words: Nutrition, coffee - caffeine
compounds, Tirend, NoDoz, Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderall, Dilantin, E numbers,
brain injuries, sports concussions, difficult births, multiple births, and so
forth.
Sports concussions
http://www.sportsconcussions.org/
15 Feb 2011, 10:01 pm
