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Adderall, Stimulants & Modafinil for ADHD: Short- & Long-Term Effects

Huberman Lab

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The Different Drugs Used to Treat ADHD

In kids and adults with ADHD the default mode network is often still active at a very robust level even while we're trying to attend to things. So that's why someone with ADHD will sit down and try and do some focused work and I'll start thinking about something they want or something they dislike their internal state will start to distract them. The hallmark of the use of these drugs is to try and enhance the activity of particular circuits to create a sort of learning so that the prefrontal cortex is much more efficient at doing its job of conducting.

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