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A recent Michigan State study published in Child Neuropsychology has looked at almost 600 kids with Predominantly Inattentive ADHD (ADHD-PI) and has subdivided those kids into two types. They studied the type they describe as ADD kids that have fewer than two of the hyperactive symptoms and compare them to the type they describe as ADHD-PI that is predominantly inattentive but has less than six of the hyperactive symptoms.
The DSM-IV (the manual that psychiatrist use to diagnose ADHD) describes individuals with ADHD-PI as having many inattentive symptoms but fewer than 6 hyperactive symptoms. Essentially the DSM-IV describes the ADHD-PI type of ADHD as individuals who are inattentive but that are normally active.
People and kids who are inattentive and inactive have been described as having Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT). The DSM III recognized this subtype of ADHD but it was done away with in the DSM-IV because of lack of research indicating that this type was significantly different from the ‘garden variety’ sub-type of ADHD-PI. In this recent study people with SCT are referred to as individuals with ADD (This is an unfortunate acronym to use as that term has been used to describe people with ADHD-PI.)
The Michigan State researchers found after careful analysis that the group that they call ADD had slower processing speed than the individuals that they describe as ADHD-PI.
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The researchers conclude that this ADD subgroup is a distinct entity which is characterized by slow cognitive processing and no hyperactivity.
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It seems that this study has teased out the Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) group from the entire group of kids with ADHD-PI.
Most ADHD studies tend to lump all individuals with ADHD-PI together. There are significant differences between individuals with ADHD-PI with SCT symptoms and ADHD-PI individuals without SCT symptoms. We cannot treat all of individuals with ADHD-PI appropriately unless we recognize that individuals with ADHD-PI are not a homogenous group.
Studies such as this Michigan State study are essential because ADHD-PI at the moment is pretty poorly understood. Some psychiatrist and psychologist seem to see all individuals with ADHD-PI as having symptoms of SCT and others insist that the symptoms of ADHD-PI are essentially the same as the symptoms of the Combined type of ADHD (ADHD-C).
My guess is that before the publication of the DSM-V in 2013 more studies such as this one will be performed to tease out the differences in ADHD subtypes.