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.

Today I'm joined by Sky Waterston for our research recap series. 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. In this

episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called the role of executive function in mediating

the relationship between all the ADHD symptoms and hyperfocus in university students. Now, I think

this is a really interesting subject, and how about we just jump right into us?

Can you tell me a little bit about this paper?

Yeah, for sure.

So this is an interesting paper.

They wanted to go a little bit deeper on the idea of hyperfocus.

So for anybody who needs a little refresher, hyperfocus is a state of intense and narrow attention on a stimulus object or task,

along with diminishing awareness of the surroundings, and some relationship to potentially

increasing cognitive performance, otherwise known as when you're focusing and the world

disappears and time disappears and suddenly you're in the zone.

It could be on something fun, which we'll talk about in a minute.

It could be on something work-related.

But that is what they were looking at.

And they really wanted to investigate in a survey of 380 university students,

whether there was a relationship between ADHD,

executive functioning, and hyperfocus,

which seems obvious,

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