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ADHD Is Not Only in the Head: Sleep, Movement, Arousal and Emotion in The Excited Brain
When people hear ADHD, they usually think about attention.
They may think about a child who cannot sit still, a teenager who forgets assignments, or an adult who moves from one unfinished task to another. The problem is often imagined as something located entirely in the mind: concentration, discipline, memory, or motivation.
Why ADHD Can Hyperfocus for Hours but Still Struggle to Start: Dopamine, Salience and The Excited Brain
Why can a person with ADHD spend six hours absorbed in a passion project and still struggle to answer a two-minute email?
Why ADHD Is Not a Character Problem: Inside The Excited Brain
The Excited Brain: The Neuroscience of ADHD and the Biology of Focus, a new Learning Coach book, begins from a different question: what if the contradiction is not a character problem at all? What if it is a clue about how attention, activation, reward, emotion, timing, and self-regulation work inside an ADHD brain?