Welcome to Hacking your ADHD.

I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.

On this podcast, I dig in 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 Automoxine Treatment, Strengths, and Anticorrelation Relationship between functional brain networks and medication, naive adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a randomized double-blind placebo controlled clinical trial.

Yes, that's the full study name.

It's quite a lot.

And this study is about this push-pull relationship between the default mode network and

the task positive network and then how admoxasine treats and can be effective in dealing

with it.

So let's get into it by kind of maybe jumping into

some of these terms that we're going to be talking about. Yeah, I think we should start with some terms.

So I will say as well, this paper is from 2015. So it's a bit of an older paper, but it was also the paper

that really nailed this topic in terms of what, you know, a randomized double-blind

placebo-controlled study, which basically means that they did this, well, let's talk about what

it is first, then we'll talk about how they did it. So take us through what the task mode is, the default mode and all that

stuff. Okay. So the default mode network, we've, you know, I've done episodes about this and we've

talked about it on the podcast before. And it's something I think is really interesting to discuss because

it's this like active part of your brain. So it's the regions of your brain that light up. And when we're,

when light up in the terms of that's what you see what's active during an MRI, which is we're

going to be talked about the study. But so it's this active during your rest, mind watering and like

self-referential thoughts. You know, you're kind of like, I'm chilling out and I'm daydreaming.

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