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How Does ADD/ADHD
Affect An Individual's Perceptual Abilities?

Although, ADD/ADHD starts in the brain, it involves the entire sensorium (vision, smell, touch, hearing, etc.,) as well as the inner world of cognition and emotion. When there is not a sufficient amount of neural connections needed to process the "traffic" (increasing stimulus) smoothly, competition between various stimulus results. When there is too much competitive stimulation from multiple external and internal sources (too much visual stimulation, too much sound stimulation, too many internal feelings and emotions, etc.) an individual with ADD/ADHD may become frustrated, irritated, and aggressive. When the limited neural network is overly taxed like this, it becomes unable to "tune in" or focus on some stimulation, while "tuning out" or "turning down" other stimulation.

The lack of ability to focus on a particular stimulus while "tuning out" or "turning down" (attenuating) others, created undue "noise" in the perceptual systems in the brain. For an ADD/ADHD individual, this perceptual "neural-noise" is overly noxious and continuous, so much that it appears to be competitively assaultive, crippling any attempt to concentrate on one stimulus while attenuating others. This leaves an ADD/ADHD individual feeling helpless and overwhelmed, looking for a way to survive the assaultive nature of their world.

Many strategies are possible, but two are the most common and most easily documented. The first is regarding ADHD individuals. ADHDs are hypothesized to have an ample supply of Acetylcholine, as well as clear, lipofuscin-free, unobstructed Cholinergic pathways, allowing them to actively compete and overwhelm the intrusive messages. Thus, ADHD individuals try to operate at a "noisier" level (being intensely hyperactive), trying to "shout-down" the crowded array of competing stimulation in the brain.

ADDs and LDs are hypothesized to have low Acetylcholine levels and adverse lipofuscin populations within the Cholinergic neural pathways, making competitive responses more difficult. It becomes so "noisy" that it is necessary to shut down all processing of the senses altogether, avoiding and deflecting all stimulation. The never ending dissonance of "neural-noises" produce a powerful competitive "numbing," almost hypnotic agent, and ADHD individuals "give up" to the competitively powerful, undifferentiated "white-neural-noise" that is being generated by their sensorium because the neural-thresholds of the sensorium have over-fired and no longer can be sustained. Thus, unlike other children, the ADDs and LDs "shut-down" and "tune-out," producing high Theta and/or Alpha brain waves (see brain maps below).
 




     

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