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Large Genetic Study Finds First Genes Connected With ADHD (arstechnica.com)
A paper published in Nature Genetics this week looked at genetic data from more than 50,000 people, finding 12 different regions of DNA that seemed to play a role in increasing ADHD risk. Ars Technica reports: This evidence comes from a genome-wide association study, or GWAS: a close look at how the DNA of people with ADHD differs from those without. Geneticist Ditte Demontis and her colleagues used data from more than 20,000 people with ADHD, comparing them to a control group of 35,000 people without an ADHD diagnosis. They found 304 points where tiny differences in DNA -- like single letter swaps -- were distributed across their two groups in a statistically telling way. If any of those variants were very close together, the researchers counted them as representing the same stretch of DNA, grouping them together into 12 important regions.
There were correlations between the genetic risk for ADHD and a range of other conditions, including depression and anorexia. That ties in with the idea that genetic variation might be important in a way that plays out system-wide. Some of the genes they identified are also known to be involved in other neurological conditions, including speech and learning disabilities, depression, and schizophrenia.
There were correlations between the genetic risk for ADHD and a range of other conditions, including depression and anorexia. That ties in with the idea that genetic variation might be important in a way that plays out system-wide. Some of the genes they identified are also known to be involved in other neurological conditions, including speech and learning disabilities, depression, and schizophrenia.
Doh, I was going to make the first post, mentioning this, however I got distracted.
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Ah, so that explains why Stormy did it. It was for science!
If humanity is to have any hope, it's going to come from the ADHD side of things. Cure all the diseases you want to, but please for the love of god, allow the natural flowering of creativity.
Don't allow us to make drones and brainiacs - that will snuff out the species faster than any other eugenics program could.
The Researchers kept getting distracted :(
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I'll be a lot more interested if they manage to locate genes connected with nymphomania...and a simple, anonymous test to find out who has them.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
in a four wall box all day long doing meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system or learning to do meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system that normal healthy humans naturally want to do.
No, ADHD is the disease of not being able to brush your fucking teeth and also figure out where you left your briefcase before you leave for work because you are too fucking distracted to focus and can't remember shit (poor working memory).
You obviously have no intimate experience with ADHD.
Funny how ADHD is really only a US thing
It's not.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Yeah thats every kid diagnosed and strung on Ritalin because their soccer mom can't handle them.
Lets ride bikes!
parent: "strung on Ritalin because their soccer mom can't handle them."
You misspelled frigid divorced single soccer mom whose hysteria is driven by the fact that she can't get her nut off even with the aid of a 15 amp industrial vibrator".
Yes, shitty parenting that results in insufficient training in self-discipline does tend to be genetic, since they're genetically related to their kids. Very few people have actual ADHD compared to the sheer number with behavioral issues and impulse control.
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ADHD is a learning disorder. Thus, the last sentence should read, " including speech and other learning disabilities, depression, and schizophrenia."
'ADHD' is not a verifiable condition in any way shape or form.
You also get to think faster, act faster, and generally outperform the muggles who are deluded into thinking the next evolution of humanity is a disease.
Or maybe we're just lately treating people who think a little bit different as having a "disorder".
Odd & quirky people have always existed. It's only lately that it's fashionable to throw labels and pills at them to get them to act like boring people.
Fuck you, die in a fire.
God Bless you sir THIS !!
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In this new era, ADHD is really coming into its own. It forces you to learn to process/simplify data faster, encourages the creation of external systems of organization and enables hyper-focus on areas of interest. These areas of interest may seem tangential at times, but relativity is the law of reality. Or as Dirk Gently might put it, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
Depends on what they mean by "ADHD". "ADHD" is many times used as a catch-all for both ADHD and ADD. I have ADD and I definitely could not do what I do without it. I took medication for several months and what I found is while my focus was greatly improved, my ability to creatively solve problems was destroyed while on it. I brought this up to my doctor and he said that a common complaint and actually recommended not taking medication unless I really needed to. He said it is common for people with ADD to have some form of extreme mental compensation, like the ability to hyper-focus when interested. He highly recommended learning to cope and practice using the strengths gained to compensate for the weaknesses.
I've been learning to cope with ADD for many decades now. I find my best work is when I let my mind wander, which ADD is great at doing. I've learned to mostly be able to direct the wandering. I assume it's the dopamine rush of solving extremely difficult novel problems that no one else seems to be able to, that helps with directing.
You also get to think faster, act faster, and generally outperform the muggles who are deluded into thinking the next evolution of humanity is a disease.
"I drive better when I'm a little buzzed."
"I take weed and acid to open my mind. I'm much more lucid and effective when I'm high."
And the real world sees you spazzing about, wrecking shit.
They can do that kind of stuff now yeah?