Ep. 86: Big Picture 5 - ADHD Matters

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function - A podcast by Sucheta Kamath

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Send us a text Psychologist and author Alexandra Horowitz says “Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.” It’s a gift to have such attentional acumen, but not everyone is lucky to have such a natural capacity for discrimination. In fact, in a neurogenetic and neuropsychiatric disorder like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the brain isn’t wired to successfully ignore things once they get no...