Gwyneth Paltrow x Kathleen Nadeau: Understanding Women and Girls with ADHD
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Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder (ADHD)
A d h d is a misnomer that causes lots of problemsb sof the name attention deficit hyper activity disorder. It's much more complicated than most people think. The predominant issue for h d is that the pre frontal lobes of the brain, right behind our forehead, is under active when we have a chd. And its under active due to an adequate supply of dopamineand that's what the stimulants do as they increase opamine levels. A cup of coffee increases dopamine levels, and a cigarette does,. That's why we learned quite a few years ago that kids were much, much more likely to start smoking cigarettes if they had agh d mmy. They were
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