executive function disorder would be a better name than regulation regulation makes it sound like we just need to get better control of ourselves  but theres one big glaring problem with renaming an illness - it makes it look like a new disorder and muddies the information landscape  take adhd   add used to be the name for the disorder then add was used to describe what we now call adhd-pi and adhd was introduced to describe what we now call adhd-ph then adhd became the catch-all for the condition with the suffixes to denote the subtype  however you still have patients with adhd-ph saying they have add doctors still giving diagnoses based on the old system and people in general not understanding what the differences are  renaming the condition entirely would introduce a whole new layer of confusion