Your Child’s ADHD Brain
by Ron Huxley on September 15, 2009
Why is that children diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder cannot do their homework, follow through on a chore but can play a video game for hours? The answer, according to this insightful article about the ADHD child’s brain, suggests that focused attention, like playing a video game is more highly rewarding to the the child with attentional problems. This increases brain chemicals that stimulate attention and concentration.
The other useful point, not explicitly stated in this article, is that this behavior may not be purely manipulation as parents often assume! The reality is that ADHD children are much more difficult to be motivated and rewarded. The better parents and teachers are at getting children engaged the more likely the success of completing a task. Anyone, regardless of their attention abilities, get bored with repetitive tasks like taking out the garbage or practicing vocabulary words.
Medications help children compensate for this deficit in their reward trigger/engagement systems in their brains.
As a parent of an ADHD child, what do you do to engage and motivate your child? Do you agree with the use of medications to enhance brain orienting systems? If not, what alternative interventions do you use (diet, supplements, etc).
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| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is sometimes described as paradoxical. On the one hand, you give people with ADHD something that they really want to zoom in on and they have no trouble focusing, like they might have. Let’s say, if they were in a classroom or if they were just trying to do something else. It’s paradoxical here. On one hand, they can’t focus. Let’s say, they’re jumping around in the classroom like kids might do. On the other hand, you give them something they really like to do and they can hyper focus and zoom in on it. |
| Why is that? That is something that has always really been a problem in understanding. And now, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, there might be an explanation because researchers looking at the brains of people with ADHD have found key differences in the reward pathways of the brain. |
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