[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?

[RTerroni]

I have ADHD and I can't concentrate for more than a few minutes.

I don't know much about that although I might have to look it up. I over concentrate then have a hard time switching gears. Had a scan and she thought the behavior was more autistic like. Towards the savant side. Idk.

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[MotherMarcus]

Hyper-focus is my middle name !

[twister744]

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?

I've read somewhere once where someone was saying the ADHD really is an inaccurate name. It should be attention regulation disorder they said. Which is why so many parents say does my kid even have adhd, they can't focus on school at all and have been diagnosed but they can focus intently on video games with such concentration. I can hyper focus. On my hobbies things like instruments or anything I am really interested in. It is always random so it still interferes. I'll be so focused on an idea or thing I am doing that I will lose track of time and it will screw up a lot of my day. then other times I can't focus at all and it screws up my day too. So they were basically saying that most people with adhd can sometimes focus really well, but they just have very little control over their attention whereas other people can stop and say oh yeah well it's been 30 minutes and ive got more to do and an adhd person might be like wait it's be 3 hours **** how did i let that happen i meant to sit down for 30 minutes? But I do not exactly know what you are refering to. It sounds very interesting though.

[Nadine_1988]

I definitely hyper-focus.
I cant concentrate on anything my mind dosnt deem "interesting" but when I get engrossed in a task I can concentrate for hours without realising how much time has passed. I often find myself having to RUN to the bathroom, because I never noticed I had to go until it was at EMERGENCY level.

But, its like my mind picks and chooses what it WANTS to focus on, and dosnt allow me to focus on what are usually the more important things.

[MotherMarcus]

Originally Posted by Nadine_1988

I definitely hyper-focus.
I cant concentrate on anything my mind dosnt deem "interesting" but when I get engrossed in a task I can concentrate for hours without realising how much time has passed. I often find myself having to RUN to the bathroom, because I never noticed I had to go until it was at EMERGENCY level.

But, its like my mind picks and chooses what it WANTS to focus on, and dosnt allow me to focus on what are usually the more important things.

That's it exactly !

[Adamjbw]

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?

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.