Tonsils and ADHD

[cjsmith]

"...adenotonsillectomy may have a positive impact on the neurobehavioral problems of children with sleep-disordered breathing."

One speculated link is sleep.

ADHD is often coexistent with (if not simultaneously causing and being caused by) anxiety, so decreased sleep quality and quantity intuitively make sense to me as another portion of a vicious circle.

I wonder how much of the signs and symptoms I see in myself as "possible ADHD" are sleep problems. I've had pretty bad insomnia for about a decade now. It would make sense that poor sleep erodes executive function.

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[cjsmith]

I'd love to know as well. There's so much about physiology, cognition, neurobiology, psychology, etc that we just don't know yet. And there's vast amounts that "we know" (humanity as a whole has ascertained) but that I personally have no clue about.