The ADHD Brain
What actually goes on in the ADHD brain? Hear from Understood expert Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Ph.D., a clinical mental health specialist in child and ...
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The ADHD brain has an issue with motivation. So ADHD isn't really a problem with attention, it's a problem with motivation. So if you have a kid with ADHD that plays video games, they can play video games for eight hours straight. Right? So, not a problem with attention. It's a problem with getting started on tasks, switching from task to task, that's also an issue as well. So when you have ADHD, your frontal lobe of your brain, where you have your executive function capabilities, things aren't working so well. So, you have issues with regulating emotions. So you may have kind of a baby roller coaster and mood swings during the day. You may have issues with working memory, that's taking information, processing it, and turning it into something new. So those are some of ...
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The ADHD brain has an issue with motivation. So ADHD isn't really a problem with attention, it's a problem with motivation. So if you have a kid with ADHD that plays video games, they can play video games for eight hours straight. Right? So, not a problem with attention. It's a problem with getting started on tasks, switching from task to task, that's also an issue as well. So when you have ADHD, your frontal lobe of your brain, where you have your executive function capabilities, things aren't working so well. So, you have issues with regulating emotions. So you may have kind of a baby roller coaster and mood swings during the day. You may have issues with working memory, that's taking information, processing it, and turning it into something new. So those are some of ...
