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Ep. 3: Russell Barkley, Ph.D. - Training, Learning, & the ADHD Brain

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

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How to Motivate Yourself to Succeed

The best way to treat disorders of prefrontal cortex is to train the brain to handle novelty by applying knowledge. Repetition is an important key in that, and one must practice habits of mind over and over again for executive function problems. We use a variety of executive functions to motivate ourselves - we direct images and words towards ourselves to get to our goals. And we also have the capacity to talk to ourselves about our self efficacy and self mastery.

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