So once we have decided that we need to make a phone call, we would basically enhance the representation and strengthen the representation of the phone in the brain, and we would diminish the representation of the computer in the brain.

So one is the selection and the other one is the filtering.

That in the normal brain, the selection and the filtering are interconnected,

so the filtering comes for free in a sense.

In the ADHD brain, you basically have both of these processes need to be directed.

You need to actively filter and you need to actively select so you're

basically doing double duty and that makes this attention network very inefficient and we

need to understand at the individual level what's going wrong and then we can help I think in much more

informed ways I think right now ADHD is treated as if it's one uniform condition but we know

this is not a uniform syndrome that we are looking at.

AED rewired episode 91. This is the show designed to help those of us who have really good

intentions and a slightly wandering attention. My name is Eric Tivers, my

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