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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article in the Washington Post today speaks to OP's question
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/30/adhd-subtype-extreme-brain-scans/ (here is a link to the referenced JAMA study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2845158 )
[quote]Many physicians and researchers have argued for years that emotional dysregulation is not peripheral to ADHD but a central, overlooked part of the condition. Yet this symptom does not appear in the formal diagnostic criteria for ADHD in the manual that doctors use to classify mental disorders. That gap has left clinicians without a clear way to categorize what they’re seeing: Are these children best understood as having severe anxiety, as being on the autism spectrum, or as something else entirely? Or does ADHD itself need to be more broadly defined?

A study published in JAMA Psychiatry this year analyzing 1,154 brain scans of children and adolescents offers fresh evidence for reevaluating the medical establishment’s definition of the disorder.

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.

The findings are part of a broader shift: Advances in brain imaging are pushing scientists beyond symptom-based labels toward biologically grounded classifications of neurological conditions — an approach already reshaping autism research, where a study published last year identified four distinct subtypes.[/quote][/quote]

That doesn’t demonstrate that this is a form of ADHD or that emotional dysregulation is always ADHD. [/quote]

[quote][b]Many physicians and researchers have argued for years that emotional dysregulation is not peripheral to ADHD but a central, overlooked part of the condition.[/b] Yet this symptom does not appear in the formal diagnostic criteria for ADHD in the manual that doctors use to classify mental disorders. That gap has left clinicians without a clear way to categorize what they’re seeing: Are these children best understood as having severe anxiety, as being on the autism spectrum, or as something else entirely? Or does ADHD itself need to be more broadly defined?[/quote]

But what do they know that you don't lol[/quote]

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