The researchers grouped three forms of ADHD identified in the imaging into familiar – and one less familiar – categories: predominantly inattentive; predominantly hyperactive/impulsive; and a more severe, combined presentation marked by emotional dysregulation or difficulty managing and responding to emotions in a controlled, appropriate way.

Okay, but how am I expected to read this?

There's just so much text.

Gotta catch em all!

Wasn't there already research suggesting there is ADHD but without AD, ADHD but without H and also ADHD with both attention deficiancy and hyperactivity? Is this the same theory?

Edit: better to read first and comment after, this is from the article:

In the new study, the first two categories map neatly onto the way ADHD is currently diagnosed, dividing along a well-established line between difficulties with focus and problems with hyperactivity and impulse control.

The third, however, pushes the field into new territory.

This extreme subtype exhibited the most extensive changes across the brain – a total of 45 abnormal areas versus 26 each for the other two subgroups.

• disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)
• oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
• unspecified mood disorders

Cheers

Ngl I’d be interested in participating in a study for this stuff if they’re trying to expand the corpus of data.

Emotional regulation is something that my kid's occupational therapist is totally aware of and working on. It would be really surprising if a child psychiatrist or child therapist were as "baffled" by it as the article seems to suggest.

But it's an important topic, especially in his case, and I learned a lot from the article.

Noice. Any way to retroactively figure out which I am without going back to the psychiatrist? Broke af rn lol.

Ah.. Well yeah

I've been diagnosing kids with "ADHD combined presentation, with associated emotion dysregulation" for years now