This week I read an much informative article from the newspaper New York Times named ”A Natural Fix For A.D.H.D.” Before this reading, I did not know that A.D.H.D. is the most commonly occurring disease of young people today in the United States, did you know that? The article says that so many as 11% between the ages of 14-17 years do have the diagnosis, which is 6 million people of the country. Maybe that article by the professor in clinical psychiatry can influence teachers, parents, and yes - the world's general outlook on A.D.H.D. to change into benefits.
A.D.H.D. is a recurrent finding of lack of attention and restlessness of structured daily routines. While for those who have the “illness” the real problem is that, to your brain, that the world you live in essentially doesn't feel very interesting.
The differences comparing to others is that people with A.D.H.D. has a lower dopamine-reward system in their brain, so much that their everyday routines doesn't feel stimulating.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain that apart from generating a sense of desire tells your brain something like; "Pay attention, this is an important experience that is worth remembering.” Rewards like sex, money, drugs and new situations are clear examples that cause the release of dopamine in our brains. The lower the level of dopamine in the brain, the more symptoms of lack of attention.
Whats interesting is that an recently new made neuroscience research shows that's people with ADHD actually ARE optimized for creating, witch we until a relative recent age was an evolutionary advantage, if you think about it.
Richard A. Friedman, professor in Clinical Psychiatry and head of The Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical Collage, USA says that It's a big issue that today's society categorizes and treat the personality trait as a disease, and an hold back property, which is absolutely the wrong direction for A.D.H.D., according to the