legomolin
legomolin t1_j64035p wrote
Reply to comment by TheNWTreeOctopus in Childhood abuse may alter brain function in adults. Study found people who experienced abuse during childhood (but not adolescence) experienced altered functioning in the brain for systems associated with perceptual processing and attention. by MistWeaver80
Do you have any references that abuse can't cause ADHD?
legomolin t1_j63zs9o wrote
Reply to comment by Delet3r in Childhood abuse may alter brain function in adults. Study found people who experienced abuse during childhood (but not adolescence) experienced altered functioning in the brain for systems associated with perceptual processing and attention. by MistWeaver80
I'm definitely all ears for sources on this. As far as I know there is a clear two way association between ACE and ADHD in longitudinal studies, but the size of an eventual causal effect is still very much unknown. The symptom overlap with childhood trauma is big and ADHD is a diagnosis that's defined symptomatically.
legomolin t1_j62jbhw wrote
Reply to Childhood abuse may alter brain function in adults. Study found people who experienced abuse during childhood (but not adolescence) experienced altered functioning in the brain for systems associated with perceptual processing and attention. by MistWeaver80
I wonder why there's no discussion of ADHD in the paper. Seems relevant.
legomolin t1_j640c9p wrote
Reply to comment by Delet3r in Childhood abuse may alter brain function in adults. Study found people who experienced abuse during childhood (but not adolescence) experienced altered functioning in the brain for systems associated with perceptual processing and attention. by MistWeaver80
A causal effect doesn't need to be 100% to still exist. Not saying it is causal, just don't think it's fully known yet.