Diseases
Utilization behavior is present in patients that have ranging diseases and disorders. The diseases mentioned below are some of those that include UB as a symptom.
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Moyamoya disease
- Primary cerebral malignant lymphoma (see Primary central nervous system lymphoma)
- ADHD
- Children with ADHD were found to display significantly higher utilization behavior compared to children of a control group. ADHD is associated with frontal lobe abnormalities and with the knowledge that UB involves the frontal lobe, researchers have started to form a connection between the two. In two studies, mentioned by Fontenelle when talking about "short-circuit movement," utilization behavior was experienced by ADHD persons. Boys with ADHD demonstrated utilization behavior more so than the boys of a control group (without ADHD) and Archibald et al. found that those with ADHD exhibited UB that was more common with those objects familiar and in the field of view of the patient.
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