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Describe your experience with add "inattention"?

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?????: I'm not quite sure what you mean but inattention is frequently experienced in add without hyperactivity. Symptoms can be inability to wait, boredom, daydreaming, frequently changing tasks. It often responds to medictaions but can be overcome with behavioral modification.

Answered 7/5/2012

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See below: Patient having symptoms of get distract easily, not pay attention or sustain attention, do careless mistake, try to finish work quickly, forget things.

Answered 5/7/2016

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Dr. Johanna Fricke answered

Specializes in Pediatrics - Developmental and Behavioral

ADHD- Primarily: Inattentive type is a neurodevelopmental disorder with criteria of 6/9 or > significant symptoms of inattention in 2 settings for 6 mos or >, with symptoms starting < age 7 that cause harmful dysfunction in academics/learning, peer interaction &/or behavior, often with deficits in remembering, processing, "filing, " retrieving & organizing information & executive functions (the "ceo" of the brain).

Answered 6/17/2013

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