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25.01.2022 Newer understanding of ADHD!
22.01.2022 "I've been married twenty five years, have three great kids, and had a decent career as a journalist, but I just got fired because I couldn't prioritise and keep up with my work." This scenario is very typical for an ADHD who is not yet diagnosed. Sarah had never been fired before. After completing college, she took a job as a staff writer for a weekly newspaper, where her output of news and feature stories won her recognition as a talented and productive journalist. [ 1,020 more word ] https://kirstineberthelsen.wordpress.com//07/22/saras-adhd/
21.01.2022 "I prefer to distinguish ADHD as attention abundance disorder. Everything is just so interesting . . . remarkably at the same time. Frank Coppola, MA, ODC, ACG
18.01.2022 Serotonin Promotes Perseverance Neuroscience NewsNEUROSCIENCE NEWS. MARCH 8, 2018 FEATUREDNEUROSCIENCEOPEN NEUROSCIENCE ARTICLES5 MIN READ Summary: A new study ...reports serotonin enhances our desire to persist at a task. Source: Champalinmaud Center for the Unknown. What happens when serotonin levels increase in human brain? How does this affect our behavior? This is a question that highly interests neuroscientists: serotonin has multiple functions in the brain and understanding what it actually does is a huge task. Not the least because serotonin is at the root of a whole class of antidepressant drugs, the most well-known of which being Prozac, that apparently work by increasing serotonin levels in the human brain. Previous results suggested that increased serotonin levels make animals (including people) more willing to wait longer for a reward to arrive in other words, that it makes them more patient. This was compatible with the idea, accepted by many, that serotonin generally acts by inhibiting behavior, because in many cases patience requires postponing doing something. But now this idea has been challenged by an international team, led by neuroscientists from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon, Portugal. Their results have been published today in the journal Nature Communications. The new study shows that serotonin promotes more than just passive waiting more than simple patience. It enhances active persistence in a task, even in the face of uncertain reward. Persistence means actively following through on a task, even if unpleasant, like completing your homework, whereas many forms of patience simply require sitting tight and doing nothing. It so happens that the tasks used in the previous studies did not allow their authors to distinguish between patience and persistence. But in the new work, Eran Lottem, the first author of the paper, and his colleagues developed a task that is actually very similar to the natural situation animals face when foraging for food. We had some hints suggesting that the inhibitory effect of serotonin was not general. Some behaviors were unaffected by serotonin, says Lottem. But we had never seen an active behavior promoted by serotonin. This is, to my knowledge, the first time such a behavior has been observed when serotonin-producing neurons are activated. The task consisted in giving the mice the choice between two drinking sites placed at each end of a long rectangular box. At any given time, only one drinking site was ready to release water, so the mice had to roam back and forth between the two sides of the box to find the water, and to get it, they had to give a poke with their nose at the drinking site. Sneakily, to mimic the unpredictability of real world situations, the experimenters arranged that even an active drinking site did not always deliver water, so they would have learn to tolerate some unsuccessful pokes. This provided the scientists with a way to measure the persistence of the animals: they could count the number of pokes they were willing to give in order to try to get water at a dry site (one that had ceased giving water). serotonin neurons Advanced techniques to directly control the activity of serotonin neurons in the brain are used to illuminate serotonin’s biological functions. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown/Sara Matias. Once the task was in place, the scientists used a technology known as optogenetics to stimulate the serotonin-producing neurons using pulses of laser light delivered by an implanted optic fiber to the animals’ brains. What we saw was that when those neurons were stimulated, the animals were willing to poke longer even when they were not getting water, says Lottem. Therefore, serotonin was not inhibiting their behavior because, in that case, the mice would have given up sooner. In other words, he concludes, the activation of serotonin neurons promotes active persistence rather than mere patience. Zachary Mainen, the lead author of this study, suggests that the results may ultimately help us to understand better how to treat depression, a disorder in which serotonin is implicated. The difference between patience and persistence may sound subtle, but the implication is not: it could be the difference between quietly sitting in bed while the world goes by and jumping out of bed each day to greet it. ABOUT THIS NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH ARTICLE Source: Maria João Soares Champalinmaud Center for the Unknown Publisher: Organized by NeuroscienceNews.com. Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown/Sara Matias. Original Research: Open access research in Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03438-y CITE THIS NEUROSCIENCENEWS.COM ARTICLE MLAAPACHICAGO Champalinmaud Center for the Unknown Serotonin Promotes Perseverance. NeuroscienceNews. NeuroscienceNews, 8 March 2018.
16.01.2022 ADHD is not a "condition" - it's a brain that functions differently and with strategies can function very effectively!
14.01.2022 This week is ADHD Awareness Week. What have you done to be more tolerant of those around you who may live with the traits of ADHD?
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08.01.2022 Maria, a working mother of three young children, reaches the end of her day with lots left to do. Again, she didn't get the laundry put away or the files sorted in her office. She beats herself up, calling herself a procrastinator, yet she's confused about how she'll ever be able to get it all done when so much happens each day that's out of her control. She plans carefully, but kid's illness, changes at the daycare, and both her and her husband's travel for work always seem ...to necessitate a change in her plans and delays on some tasks. Strategies For Change: My initial strategy for change is for you to begin to categorize in your own mind which delays in your life are procrastination. These are the delays that you want to something about. Knowing this difference is a good place to start. As you begin to identify which delays are truly voluntary delays that undermine your performance and well-being, you may see a pattern emerge. These tasks, projects, or intended actions may have something in common. For example, you may find that these tasks, projects, or intended actions elicit common feelings. On a separate piece of paper, or on your computer, or simply as a thought of experiment, list those tasks, projects, activities, or "things" in your life on which you tend to procrastinate. Next to each, jot down what emotions and thoughts come to mind when you think of each of these moments of procrastination. Do not overthink this. It could be, for example, that you are uncertain about what to do to complete a task. When you have finished your list, look for patterns in the emotions or thoughts involved.
07.01.2022 Emotions, and struggles with and between various emotions, play a central role in the daily life of all children, adolescents, and adults. Emotions guide what we notice and what we ignore, what we focus on intently and what we carefully avoid. Conflicting emotions can cause us to disrupt engagement with a task we want to accomplish, or lead us repeatedly to do what we consciously intend never to do again. [ 541 more words ] https://kirstineberthelsen.wordpress.com//adhd-and-the-em/
06.01.2022 "I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers." Woody Allen
