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ADD/ADHD

obliquediversions

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3. Early onset dementias are also an overlooked cause of symptoms

Reply to meow2u3 (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 1, 2016, 05:16 PM

Nov 2016

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May wish to to add Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia, which responds, at least in the early stages, to the drugs normally prescribed for ADHD, to the list

https://www.theaftd.org/understandingftd/disorders/bv-ftd

Unfortunately some early ADHD studies included children from areas of North Carolina which were settled by Huguenots who carried the disease. Its highly hereditary

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102171207.htm

Quote (emphasis mine):
"The study also found that *behavioral problems* associated with frontotemporal dementia were the most likely to be hereditary, while language problems were the least likely to be hereditary"

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Fetal alcohol syndrome isn't the only condition with ADHD-like symptoms meow2u3 Jan 2015 #1

Early onset dementias are also an overlooked cause of symptoms obliquediversions Nov 2016 #3

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