What is ADHD

[music] >> So essentially ADHD is a weakening in the prefrontal cortex, which is the front part, the most advanced part of our brain, that controls [music] impulse impulsivity. And so essentially when a person is struggling with ADHD, what they have is a weaker functioning impulse control section of their brain. Which means that I might be giving you this presentation and a fly might fly by in front of my eyes for a second. I might notice it, but in an in an instant, in a split second, my brain is able to redirect me and [music] guide me to no, you're in the middle of giving a presentation or in the middle of listening to a presentation and therefore I'm not going to pay attention to the fly that just flew by. So much so that in a healthy functioning prefrontal cortex brain, you might ask me afterwards, 45 minutes later, was there a fly in the room? I might not even remember that there was because that's how quickly >> [music] >> we need those impulses to be controlled and to be filtered out. What should I be paying attention to? What shouldn't I? And so it's a hyperactive, if it's weakened, then it's a hyperactive mind [music] that's going to follow the fly because it's not controlling that stimulus. All of a sudden, it could be 10 seconds later, but I'm in the middle of a complicated lecture, presentation, sheer class, and that's it. I missed a couple of points and now I'm lost and then I get distracted by the next thing. Even where a person's kind of spacing out, that also is the result of a hyperactive mind that's getting hyperactively distracted [music] from thing to thing to thing and not in split seconds filtering those things out.