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Adderall, Stimulants & Modafinil for ADHD: Short- & Long-Term Effects
Huberman Lab
The Prefrontal Cortex: A Powerful Resource for Attention
Attention is a powerful resource it's what allows us to navigate through life with efficiency and to be adaptive in our behaviors. But at rest if you were to think about essentially nothing or whatever just pops into your mind with no dedicated effort toward paying attention to anything your brain would consume about 25% of your daily caloric needs. In people both children and adults that have ADHD their prefrontal cortex is not necessarily deficient in any specific way except that it is not as good at orchestrating the activity of other brain networks operating in parallel with it. We can pay attention because of that very precious real estate just behind our foreheads the prefrontal cortex.
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