Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

And we're going to have to understand how it utilizes time to sort of get things done.

Now, I know that sounds kind of like abstract, but once I sort of start to break it down and we look at the brain regions, I think it'll actually get easier, not harder.

And my hope is that once y'all sort of understand like these components of time, which no one ever talks about, by the way, because neurotypical people's brains just do this automatically.

My hope is that it will empower you to solve a lot of your problems.

OK, so the first thing we're going to do is talk about the suprachiasmatic.

nucleus so this is the first kind of problem we have this is our internal clock so we as human beings have an internal biological clock right so you can wake up in the morning and you get a sense of what time it is so there are a lot of things like you know when you're sitting there and you've been on the computer for a while you've got you get a sense of how long how much time has passed so our internal clock is actually impaired

in ADHD.

So this part of our brain that basically is an internal clock and tells us how much time has passed is impaired.

Now this creates this, this in and of itself explains so many of the problems with ADHD.

Oh my God, I was hyper focusing for four hours.

I had no idea.

Oh, I completely forgot that I was supposed to go pick someone up from the airport.

Now let's think about this.

How is a

to pick up someone from the airport.

It's because they literally have this part of their brain that's like a stopwatch that's keeping track of time.

And once a certain amount of time passes, they know, okay, I have to pick up my friend at noon.

It's 8 a.m.

right now.

Once two hours pass, I need to alert the consciousness that it is time to go.