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Dr. John Kruse

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Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

Yeah, only to the extent of trying to have a varied diet and eating at somewhat regular intervals, but not more specifically.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

Yeah, only to the extent of trying to have a varied diet and eating at somewhat regular intervals, but not more specifically.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So by stepping back a little bit and broadening it, I'll get to the video game things. But one of the effective approaches that helps with symptomatic reduction with ADHD is cognitive behavioral therapy. So that's a form of talking therapy. And my quick overview of it is that it focuses on

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So by stepping back a little bit and broadening it, I'll get to the video game things. But one of the effective approaches that helps with symptomatic reduction with ADHD is cognitive behavioral therapy. So that's a form of talking therapy. And my quick overview of it is that it focuses on

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So by stepping back a little bit and broadening it, I'll get to the video game things. But one of the effective approaches that helps with symptomatic reduction with ADHD is cognitive behavioral therapy. So that's a form of talking therapy. And my quick overview of it is that it focuses on

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

actions, thoughts, and feelings, and that humans can have direct control of their actions and thoughts, not too much over their feelings, but all three are affecting each other. And the traditional CBT was developed by Aaron Beck to treat depression probably 50 years ago, maybe longer, 60s, I think, late 60s. Anyway, on the surface, it's a horrible match for

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

actions, thoughts, and feelings, and that humans can have direct control of their actions and thoughts, not too much over their feelings, but all three are affecting each other. And the traditional CBT was developed by Aaron Beck to treat depression probably 50 years ago, maybe longer, 60s, I think, late 60s. Anyway, on the surface, it's a horrible match for

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

actions, thoughts, and feelings, and that humans can have direct control of their actions and thoughts, not too much over their feelings, but all three are affecting each other. And the traditional CBT was developed by Aaron Beck to treat depression probably 50 years ago, maybe longer, 60s, I think, late 60s. Anyway, on the surface, it's a horrible match for

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

ADHD, because we know it requires lots of repetitive, boring homework, doing the same thing. It involves introspection of being aware of what you're doing already, looking at those patterns, looking at what the triggers are. to see if you can see triggers for them.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

ADHD, because we know it requires lots of repetitive, boring homework, doing the same thing. It involves introspection of being aware of what you're doing already, looking at those patterns, looking at what the triggers are. to see if you can see triggers for them.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

ADHD, because we know it requires lots of repetitive, boring homework, doing the same thing. It involves introspection of being aware of what you're doing already, looking at those patterns, looking at what the triggers are. to see if you can see triggers for them.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And then doing lots and lots of repetitive homework, and when it's successful for depression or PTSD or other venues, we know it actually changes brain wiring and brain chemistry. So lots of people still think talking therapies are sort of up here doing something and chemicals and medications are really changing the brain. If your thoughts are changing, if your behavior is changing,

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And then doing lots and lots of repetitive homework, and when it's successful for depression or PTSD or other venues, we know it actually changes brain wiring and brain chemistry. So lots of people still think talking therapies are sort of up here doing something and chemicals and medications are really changing the brain. If your thoughts are changing, if your behavior is changing,

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And then doing lots and lots of repetitive homework, and when it's successful for depression or PTSD or other venues, we know it actually changes brain wiring and brain chemistry. So lots of people still think talking therapies are sort of up here doing something and chemicals and medications are really changing the brain. If your thoughts are changing, if your behavior is changing,

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

your brain has changed. That's the only place that thoughts and behaviors come from. But there have been at least two groups, Mary Salanto's in New York and a Harvard group by, I'm blanking on his first, Saffron and some other, Ramsey at Pennsylvania, developed approaches using CBT techniques specifically designed for people with ADHD to help overcome some of those hurdles and barriers.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

your brain has changed. That's the only place that thoughts and behaviors come from. But there have been at least two groups, Mary Salanto's in New York and a Harvard group by, I'm blanking on his first, Saffron and some other, Ramsey at Pennsylvania, developed approaches using CBT techniques specifically designed for people with ADHD to help overcome some of those hurdles and barriers.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

your brain has changed. That's the only place that thoughts and behaviors come from. But there have been at least two groups, Mary Salanto's in New York and a Harvard group by, I'm blanking on his first, Saffron and some other, Ramsey at Pennsylvania, developed approaches using CBT techniques specifically designed for people with ADHD to help overcome some of those hurdles and barriers.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And both of them encourage actually the use of medications in combination with it. Because many people with ADHD are too unfocused, too unable to sit down and do it. But these are approaches, and both approaches are amazingly similar, although devised completely independently. At the core of both of those approaches is having a system of scheduling each day.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And both of them encourage actually the use of medications in combination with it. Because many people with ADHD are too unfocused, too unable to sit down and do it. But these are approaches, and both approaches are amazingly similar, although devised completely independently. At the core of both of those approaches is having a system of scheduling each day.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And both of them encourage actually the use of medications in combination with it. Because many people with ADHD are too unfocused, too unable to sit down and do it. But these are approaches, and both approaches are amazingly similar, although devised completely independently. At the core of both of those approaches is having a system of scheduling each day.