Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Short attention span
Poor attention span
HP:0000736
What it means
Reduced attention span characterized by distractibility and impulsivity.
Rare diseases that can present with this60
Very common80–99%
4Common30–79%
21- Alpha-mannosidosis, infantile form
- Angelman syndrome due to maternal 15q11q13 deletion
- Autosomal recessive ataxia, Beauce type
- Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 11
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome
- Childhood-onset spasticity with hyperglycinemia
- Congenital-onset Steinert myotonic dystrophy
- FOXP1 Syndrome
- Hyperlysinemia
- Idiopathic hypersomnia
- Inherited Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Kufor-Rakeb syndrome
- MELAS
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, adult form
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, juvenile form
- Opitz GBBB syndrome
- PRKAR1B-related neurodegenerative dementia with intermediate filaments
- S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase deficiency
- Septopreoptic holoprosencephaly
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome
Sometimes5–29%
34- 11q22.2q22.3microdeletion syndrome
- 15q11.2microdeletion syndrome
- 20q11.2microduplication syndrome
- 7q31microdeletion syndrome
- Angelman syndrome due to imprinting defect in 15q11-q13
- Ataxia-oculomotor apraxia type 4
- Cerebral visual impairment
- Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
and 26 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Easily distracted · Easy distractibility · High distractibility · Problem paying attention
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