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Originally Posted by Tagless
Hi guys,
A while back I learned that people with ADHD tend to have too little activation in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex, but there were methods such as meditation which could help. I recently had a SPECT scan done which found that I actually have an overactivated ACC. ADHD drugs help in activating the ACC, but I obviously have enough activation as it is. I'm new to this type of ADHD and I'm wondering if anyone else has read/heard about how to deal with it? I seem to reflect the same symptoms as most people with ADHD. I've tried using Google for info but everything seems to be for ADHD with low ACC activation, nothing about ACC over-activation :/ Thoughts?
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This is very interesting. I'm just doing some research into ADHD-Pi as it's fairly obvious that I suffer from it (not officially diagnosed - have resisted as I'm not a fan of over-pathologising, but also because I didn't grasp some of the features of the disorder and my ability to concentrate obsessively on one thing (often to the exclusion even of remembering to eat/noticing hunger for a whole day, let alone making it to a meeting...) led me to falsely conclude I probably wasn't ADD.
Anyway - regarding the Anterior Cingulate Cortex it's not very clear.
Here: "Error-related event-related potentials in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Reading Disorder, and Math Disorder" (i can't seem to post links...) they say ADHD subjects had higher ERNs (Error related negativity, related to the ACC), whilst here: "Anterior cingulate cortex dysfunction in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder revealed by fMRI and the counting stroop" they say less activity in the ACC - but that's from 1999 so not sure...
I'll keep digging.