Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

So if I were to ask you, how long did it take you to finish your homework?

How long did it take you to write your dissertation?

How long did it take you to go to the grocery store?

A neurotypical brain is pretty good at calculating, looking back in time and calculating how much time something actually took.

This is the biggest deficit in ADHD.

This is the root of all of these time blindness problems.

So we don't track time.

And that's going to be part of our solution.

We don't track how long things actually take, right?

I just go about my day doing the things that I need to do.

And then I trust that my brain is accurately measuring the amount of time that it takes to complete tasks.

If it accurately measures the amount of time it takes to complete tasks then I have estimates of how long it takes to complete tasks.

Once I have estimates for how long it takes to complete tasks I can plan and execute tasks.

But if my clock is shut off, if I don't have the ability to measure, right, and that's where the suprachiasmatic nucleus internal biological clock comes from, if that is actually disabled, then my capacity to look back in time and say, okay, this homework took one hour for me to finish, that is impaired.

So now we begin to see that this is kind of like how this looks.

Okay, so I'm going to draw this out because I know I just said it, but I imagine it's confusing.

So why is it that our brains have difficulty estimating the amount of time?

So it turns out that there's a very specific deficit that is called a retrospective time perception deficit.

So what does this mean?

This means that when I'm over here and I am planning to complete a task,