I found this New York Times article very interesting. All correlational, of
course, but intriguing studies showing that sleep deficits in children and
adults are associated with ADHD behaviors in both in a large number of cases.
Interesting, but the author has a huge personal investment. He has had
sleep/activity problems and appears to be on an upper/down med cycle (among
other things). It's an interesting hypothesis (misdiagnosis is certainly
common in the ADHD world) but I'd withhold judgement until someone does
Fascinating ideas. The ADHD behaviors presented are pretty broad, and certainly
sleep problems can contribute to many cognitive/attentional problems (a general
principle?), so it would be surprising if there weren't some association. As
he notes, we really need research, but there are many
