February 5, 2021Deficient emotional self-regulation (DESR) — defined as “emotional impulsiveness, difficulties inhibiting inappropriate response, problems refocusing attention and disorganization of coordinated action in response to emotional activation, resulting in extreme responses that would be considered inappropriate for the developmental age of the person” — is more common and aggravated among children with untreated ADHD than it is among children with treated ADHD and control subjects.
These higher DESR levels — and more severe symptoms of inattention and impulsivity, for example — are consequently linked to greater sleep problems in a new study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders1that found positive correlations between.
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