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Jeru's avatar
Jan 8Edited

Scott, diabetics have trackers that measure their blood-glucose levels and release insulin or glucagon as needed to hold their sugar near baseline.

I hope and pray that we'll soon develop something like that to manage an emotionally dysregulated person's nervous system by strategically lifting or dropping neurotransmitters and hormones concentrations back to near-baseline. Spiking adrenaline in an ADHD patient? This product returns it to the calmer levels mimicking that of an emotionally regulated person.

Peter Bevis's avatar

As someone who was late diagnosed with ADHD this article really resonated with me. The emotional deregulation is really hard to manage. Thank you

Lina Mika's avatar

I wonder what you make of the parents' shared risk factors for ADHD potentially creating chaotic environments for their children (therefore complicating the connection between chaotic childhood experiences and ADHD symptoms).

Would an adoption study be the best way to sort this out? You'd have to take children with very low GWAS indices for ADHD and place them into chaotic adoptive families, which would clearly have ethical issues.... but how can one tease out the differences between some forms of childhood adversity environments and ADHD symptoms?

Thanks for the research you put out there with such a positive perspective!

Miriam Gordon's avatar

Potato, po-TAH-to. Tomato, to-MAH-to.

Scott Barry Kaufman's avatar

I think these distinctions really do matter actually.

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