Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this

podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

And today, we've got a research recap with Skywaterson. In this series, we take a look at a single

research paper and dive into what

the paper says, how it was conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways that we can give

you. In this episode, we're going to be discussing the default mode network. As this is a new

series, we're going to be figuring out what works and what doesn't, and I'd love to hear what you all think of it.

So, if you have any thoughts, head on over to hacking your ADHD.com slash contact and let me know.

All right, with that said, let's get on with the show.

This time, we're looking at a article from the Journal of Neurocience and Therapeutics from 2024,

called the Interference of Default Mode Network on Attention Networks in Adults with

Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder, and its association with genetic variance

and treatment outcomes.

Yeah.

Bit of a word salad.

Lots of lots to go on there.

They wanted to get all the keywords in.

The big takeaway from this is we're talking about the default mode network today. Yeah. So, uh, let's, uh, let's hear a little bit about this paper. Yeah. So basically this paper was really interesting. They, they did, I'm just going to read it, Voxel-based whole brain connectum analysis. So some pretty cool genetic and also brain analysis with 84 adults with ADHD and 89 healthy controls. I'd love to say that. But 89

controls to identify what's going on in the brain, specifically looking at the default network.

And I know because you've talked about the default network before, do you want to give us a little definition of what this is?

Yeah.

And before that, I also just come in to let people know that the connectome is the new way that they're mapping the brain.

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