Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

I cannot...

think through my problems, and suddenly my behavior changes.

I don't necessarily learn from my mistakes by thinking through them.

If anything, the hippocampus feeds our cortices, right?

So the things that I've learned will show up in my thoughts, but the things that I think won't always become part of my memory.

This is why if you have a great idea or

For a video game or a novel or a hilarious joke, if you don't write it down, you will forget it.

Not all of your thoughts are put down into memory.

In fact, your brain sort of uses thinking as a way of getting rid of stuff, like thinking is a way of processing stuff.

But what is in your memory will show up in your thoughts.

What is in your thoughts doesn't always get put into your memory.

Now, what does that have to do with ADHD?

Over here, we have the thalamus.

Now the thalamus is our sensory gateway to the brain.

So our eyes go into the thalamus, our ears go into the thalamus, our olfactory senses go into the thalamus, all of these things go into the thalamus.

And then the thalamus connects very, very, very tightly to the hippocampus.

So the first time that you're seeing a volcano, are you remembering it?

Do you have to try hard to remember it?

Of course not.

The first time that you taste something, you know, that's absolutely delicious.