I Made a YouTube Video about Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome
Hello all. I made a video about CDS. It took me more than two years to create and involved processing 228 scientific papers and writing over 200 pages of notes.
The video is an introduction to CDS: the definition and symptoms, how it compares to ADHD, the impairments associated with CDS, the history of CDS research, and so on.
Note: No AI, no midroll ads or promotions. For those of you with audio-processing issues, I made sure the subtitles were accurate.
It's here:
https://youtu.be/YtImdOdLUkQ?si=UsVDBCoE7XgF7kW5
The citations and references for everything in the video are here in this PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-g3Z16HMv9hOD1BfDCvKc16LlfMxScfq/view?usp=sharing
In order for this post not to get automatically deleted, here are the first three references from the reference list (the rest are in the PDF linked directly above):
American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental
disorders (5th ed., text rev.). American Psychiatric Association.
https://doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787
Andrews-Hanna, J. R. (2012). The brain’s default network and its adaptive role in internal
mentation. The Neuroscientist, 18(3), 251–270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858411403316
Banich, M. T. (2009). Executive function: The search for an integrated account. Current
Directions in Psychological Science, 18(2), 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-
8721.2009.01615.x
It's still getting deleted. Here is the first paragraph:
Cognitive disengagement syndrome—formerly known as sluggish cognitive tempo—is
characterized by daydreaming, underactivity, and mental confusion (Becker et al., 2023). As I
write this in 2026, cognitive disengagement syndrome—CDS for short—is not well known. It’s
not even in the standard guides psychiatrists and clinical psychologists use for diagnosis.
Becker, S. P., Willcutt, E. G., Leopold, D. R., Fredrick, J. W., Smith, Z. R., Jacobson, L. A.,
Burns, G. L., Mayes, S. D., Waschbusch, D. A., Froehlich, T. E., McBurnett, K., Servera, M., &
Barkley, R. A. (2023). Report of a work group on sluggish cognitive tempo: Key research
directions and a consensus change in terminology to cognitive disengagement syndrome.
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(6), 629–645.