Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Good afternoon everyone. I am Susan Coffin for Attitude magazine. I'd like to

welcome you to today's ADHD experts broadcast. Today's webinar is about a

super hot button topic with our readers with all of you who are listening, I'm sure, and that is video games.

The good news is, as we've discussed in the past, the video games can teach problem solving skills, they can teach critical thinking,

and they can do a lot to generate team play. But in an ADHD world, they can also draw attention

and time away from real people and real experiences in the real world.

And they can disproportionately affect kids with ADHD because they stimulate the pleasure centers

of the brain and deliver the dopamine that teens and young adults with ADHD's crave.

And I guess at their worst, video gaming and gaming can become a real addiction.

The good news today is that our speakers, West Crenshaw and Ryan Siles, will be talking about strategies that parents can use to prevent

a gamer from reaching that addiction point.

Some of the things they'll be talking about are how video games stimulate the ADHD brain,

how the right games can enhance learning,

socialization, and critical thinking

for kids of ADHD

and how the wrong ones can impair those same skills,

how sort of micro achievements while gaming trick the brain into thinking they've done

something important and how that can keep kids from with ADHD from really doing things that are

important.

And on the positive side, how to gamify daily activities to enhance

positive outcomes for kids with ADHD how to detect here's a good one how to detect the differences

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