Dr. Sharon Saline
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first heard Feb 2019
last heard Aug 2024
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And so kids are not making the connections.
And though that system of satisfaction and internal rewards is just not as effective and efficient as it is in neurotypical brains.
Yes, they do.
Because having ADHD means that you have
more challenges with executive functioning than neurotypical brains because those that frontal lobe connectivity that I talked about earlier, you know, the frontal lobes are like
you know, I would say the sound engineers of the brain.
You know, if you imagine that there's a band in a in a recording studio and there's a sound engineer in the booth and he says, Okay, I need more vocals, or oh I need a little less drums, or I want more of the cowbell, that that sound engineer
you know, metaphorically, is like our executive functioning, which is in the frontal lobes and they it helps us execute things and the connections
in the brain and how that runs on systems that use dopamine and orpinephrine, it's just different in ADHD brains.
And so um I think that's really important for all parents and educators to understand that ADHD is a biologically based condition.
And so it's not that kids are lazy or they c they don't wanna work.
It's that their their brains are wired differently, as you say, and they need extra support, they need m sometimes medication is helpful, but all kids with ADHD and adults as well have to learn the skills.
That go with executive functioning.
Oh so I thank you for asking this.
It it's it's tricky.
Um I do have ideas about this.
Um
You know, one of the things that I've noticed is that when children are younger, you know, in elementary school, parents are more willing to, you know, do uh behavioral interventions first and then if those really are not
working in the ways they would like, they'll consider medication.
By the time kids are in middle or high school, uh if they're diagnosed, then parents and the kids themselves want to try the medication.
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