Sonia Gray

It's a protein that helps form connections in the brain.

And I think the beauty of that study is that these are things probably we all knew, I'm sure a lot of teachers knew, but until it's kind of in black and white, until a scientist has said, look what we've found, there's still that thing of, yes, we know it's harder for him, but everybody knows the rules, just sit still.

And it's validating, I think.

That's what I, as a member of the ADHD community, I was like, this is something that we can go...

Look, here it is.

Scientists have found this.

I don't know why it should be different, but something that's measurable tends to get better traction.

And part of the broader reach of the study is to do just that.

Something that has interested me from when I first went into that scanner back in 2022 is that I don't fidget.

Not a fidgeter, or at least I thought I wasn't.

But then I realised that fidgeting comes in many forms.

You can see I'm moving my hands a lot.

Yes.

There is no way, if you said to me right now, you've got to speak without moving your hands, I couldn't.

Yeah.

And we don't even, look at me, we don't even realise we're doing it.

So do you think you'll get to a point anytime soon where you could put someone like me into a scanner for 15 minutes, say, and use it as a kind of a diagnostic tool?

Full disclosure, Gil was absolutely right.

I could see his mouth moving, I could hear the words coming out, but I couldn't listen and process this complex information at the same time.

So, let's come back to the science to try and understand what is going on here.