For an ADHD group, from overview to optimization

Understanding ADHD

Video: What is ADHD? https://www.understood.org/en/articles/what-is-adhd

Videos: https://howtoadhd.com/

Cutting-Edge Research on ADHD:

https://mcgovern.mit.edu/research-areas/adhd/

Cool Comics: https://www.adhddd.com/comics/

Multitasking

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/10/25/decade-data-reveals-heavy-multitaskers-reduced-memory-psychologist-says/

To sum up the Stanford research: “In about half of the studies, the heavy media multitaskers are significantly underperforming on tasks of working memory and sustained attention. The other half are null results; there’s no significant difference. It strikes me as pretty clear that there is a negative relationship between media multitasking and memory performance – that high media multitasking is associated with poor performance on cognitive memory tasks. There’s not a single published paper that shows a significant positive relationship between working memory capacity and multitasking.”

But, see more for factors that influence multitasking:

Media-multitasking and cognitive control across the lifespan

“Collectively, the findings suggest that higher levels of media-multitasking are associated with better multitasking performance (as assessed in cognitive tests), but only for individuals aged ~ 7 to 29 years.”

“Interestingly, in our data the sign of the relationship between multitasking costs and multi-media use also changes with age from positive in young participants to negative in older participants, suggesting that the demographic composition of participant groups may have significantly influenced the pattern of results observed in previous studies.”

The study authors concluded, “These findings suggest that age is an important moderator of the relationship between technology use and cognition.”

Dopaminizing

Book: THE WILLPOWER INSTINCT by Kelly McGonigal

Ted Talk (See First Part on Reward Substitution):

Optimal Brain Functioning, Setting Up for Effective Self-Regulation

Talks at Google (see first intervention)

Article: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_is_the_best_diet_for_mental_health

Video (see the two on exercise): https://brainrules.net/video-tutorials/