Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

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So, you know, I kind of go back and forth between more the very clinical stuff and more philosophical or existential because I think both definitely play a role

in the continuum of our human experience and our shared collective experience.

But I did an episode, I think, two weeks ago

on intermittent explosive disorder, and I thought it would be appropriate to kind of revisit

that category and talk about oppositional defiant disorder.

Now, this is one, a common referral question that I get as a

neuropsychologist when kids demonstrate behavioral problems. And this is a disorder that is

pretty much specific to, you know, childhood and adolescents.

You don't diagnose somebody in their, you know, late 20s and mid-40s with oppositionality.

That could be something else like intermittent explosive disorder.

But this is a very common disorder, and it tends to co-occur very frequently with ADHD.

Generally, the hyperactive type or the combined type where you have hyperconnectivity and inattention.

And you can go back to the episodes on ADHD that I've done to talk about that.

So I think there's a higher prevalence of oppositionality in the world that we live in,

given the access to technology, the access to the internet and social media and um you know here in the united states and i'm not

sure if it's across the country but at least you know in massachusetts they basically just

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