2024-01-08 13:16:04
In cognitive disengagement syndrome, attention disorder dominates, with confusion and a tendency to get lost in thoughts. stockbusters – stock.adobe.com
PSYCHOLOGY – Sluggish cognitive tempo, sometimes considered a variant of ADHD, is characterized by intellectual and motor slowness. It would affect 2% of children.
Dreaming while awake, dozing in the middle of the day, thinking and acting slowly, lacking energy, having an anxious and/or depressive temperament, withdrawing from others… Suffering from “sluggish cognitive tempo” (SCT), It’s a bit like living at a snail’s pace. Is it just a particularity (to each their own rhythm), a variant of attention disorders with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) or another neurodevelopmental disorder? In Anglo-Saxon countries which have been studying SCT for around fifteen years, it is rather the hypothesis of a specific syndrome which is retained. But what exactly is it?
«While ADHD is characterized by a lack of attention regulation, motivational disorders, fluctuating emotions and/or motor agitation, it is really the attentional disorder that is predominant in SCT, explains Sébastien Henrard, neuropsychologist trainer (Lot), co-author of Assessing ADHD in children and adolescents (ed. Deboeck)…
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