Question: I'm very interested in your theory about the potential second attention disorder, Sluggish Cognitive Tempo/Concentration Deficit Disorder. How is the rate of new research on this going? Are you optimistic about it becoming more widely recognized in the next few years? 
  
  I really identify with it (alongside my ADHD diagnosis), so I'm hoping we may learn more about it (and potential treatments) sooner rather than later
Answer: Research on SCT is going on almost weekly in the journals so lots of new information is accumulating.  Our work group on SCT is reviewing it all and publishing a review later this year along with a change in the term as I noted above.  But we have a long way to go as there is barely 150 articles on SCT but growing whereas there is several hundred thousand on ADHD (over its 250 year history in medicine).  But young professionals wanting to establish a research reputation are gravitating toward SCT as there is so much we don't know that nearly any study is publishable.  So stay tuned.  And use Google Scholar periodically to update yourself on any new findings.  You can set the search dates so you don't keep getting the older studies you have already seen.  You can check in with me at the end of the year when that review should be done and published and I can provide it to you.  The more that gets published and the more experts speak about it at conferences the more the average clinician will start to become familiar with it, but understand that most clinicians right now don't know of it and its not an official disorder.  Even ADHD experts who should know about it are forced to use ADHD Inattentive Presentation to tick a box on a billing form to get paid.
content: Q: I'm very interested in your theory about the potential second attention disorder, Sluggish Cognitive Tempo/Concentration Deficit Disorder. How is the rate of new research on this going? Are you optimistic about it becoming more widely recognized in the next few years? 
  
  I really identify with it (alongside my ADHD diagnosis), so I'm hoping we may learn more about it (and potential treatments) sooner rather than later
   Ans: Research on SCT is going on almost weekly in the journals so lots of new information is accumulating.  Our work group on SCT is reviewing it all and publishing a review later this year along with a change in the term as I noted above.  But we have a long way to go as there is barely 150 articles on SCT but growing whereas there is several hundred thousand on ADHD (over its 250 year history in medicine).  But young professionals wanting to establish a research reputation are gravitating toward SCT as there is so much we don't know that nearly any study is publishable.  So stay tuned.  And use Google Scholar periodically to update yourself on any new findings.  You can set the search dates so you don't keep getting the older studies you have already seen.  You can check in with me at the end of the year when that review should be done and published and I can provide it to you.  The more that gets published and the more experts speak about it at conferences the more the average clinician will start to become familiar with it, but understand that most clinicians right now don't know of it and its not an official disorder.  Even ADHD experts who should know about it are forced to use ADHD Inattentive Presentation to tick a box on a billing form to get paid.