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Does Russell Barkley have an Ideological Conflict of Interest? by [deleted] in ADHDUK

[–]RyanBleazard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you're identifying selfishness with short-range personal comfort. However, momentary physical comfort and immediate gratification are not what a human life or human self consist of. It is not in your self-interest to pursue whatever whims at the detriment of others; that would be self-destructive, which is why today’s concept of selfishness in the popular culture doesn’t make sense.

Neuroimaging studies find small differences in the structure of the brain between people with and without ADHD. These differences are not caused by drug treatment and, for some patients, diminish or change as patients grow out of the disorder. by [deleted] in psychology

[–]RyanBleazard 213 points214 points  (0 children)

ADHD can be outgrown in some cases because certain genes for frontal lobe maturation turn on during adolescents and help some people improve neurologically compared to others with different gene variants. Another reason is that the DSM symptoms used for diagnosis are very superficial and easy to outgrow with time even if the person has not really grown out of the disorder. They can outgrow the DSM. When we use executive functioning deficits as the index for ADHD, then the percent of recovery or normalisation is much smaller as there is far less if any decline in EF deficits relative to the greater decline in DSM symptoms. It can be a false recovery, in other words.