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What Causes Attention Deficit Disorder?

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a dysfunction of the Reticular Activating System (RAS), which is the center of consciousness that integrates learning and memory. RAS typically supplies the right amount of neural connectors that are needed for smooth information processing and clear, non-stressful attention. It is when the neural building materials are lacking that demand for further connectivity cannot easily be fulfilled and interferes with the efficient processing of information, leaving the afflicted Attention Deficit Disorder individual frustrated.

A person with ADD does not have enough neural "hardware" and the supply cannot keep up with the demand for new neural connectors within the Central Nervous System (CNS). As demands for new learning, memory, and the management of information processing cannot be satisfied, and the existing neural pathways are being continually overworked and over stressed due to the insufficient "connections," this causes gridlock or shutdown, so that nothing gets processed thereafter. This, most obviously, causes frustration, bewilderment, and behavioral problems with an individual with Attention Deficit Disorder.

The Reticular Activating System and its connections are at the center of consciousness, attention, and learning.

It seems that the Reticular Activating System is intimately involved in the neural mechanisms which produce consciousness and focused attention, receiving impulses from the spinal cord, relaying them to the Thalamus, then to the Cortex, and back again in a feedback loop to the Hippocampus/Thalamus/Hypothalamus and the participating neural structures in order for learning and memory to occur. Without the continual excitation of cortical neurons by reticular activation impulses, a person is unconscious and cannot be aroused. When the stimulation is enough for consciousness, but not for attentiveness, Attention Deficit or Learning Disorders is the result. If too activated, a person cannot relax or concentrate and is over-stimulated or hyperactive, then that usually results in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

 
 




     

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