Frieslander wrote:
But is it more ADD related or more Asperger's related?
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Short-term memory
ADHD Inattentive
ADHD Inattentive / central auditory processing disorder (CAPD)
Some of the subtle epilepsies such as petit/absence/TLE/complex partial
Side-effect of:
Brain injury
Sports concussions
Rollover car accidents
etc.
Capacity of the hippocampus / related areas in the brain to temporarily store data. (The idea of memory goes well beyond the hippocampus only).
and so on.
Asperger's
Autism
Short-term memory is more related to ADHD Inattentive / ADD / central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) than it is only to Asperger's (my view).
That does not mean that some persons with Asperger's / Autism do not have noticeable, real difficulties with short-term memory/aspects of short-term memory.
It is a lot easier to discuss problems with short-term memory than it is to easily fix short-term memory problems.
The single classification of medicines which seems to be most closely associated with temporary improvements (not a cure) to short-term memory is the central nervous system stimulants/alerting agents (examples: coffee, caffeine compounds, Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderall and so on)(again, no cures). The stimulants/alerting agents work for a few persons (not everyone).
That's my understanding.