You can feel off task without having a wandering thought you can name. A new ADHD study measured the difference, while 62 medication trials showed how little can be known in advance.
You can feel your attention leave the room without having a wandering thought you can name. A study this week separated that feeling from ordinary mind wandering, and the two did not behave in quite the same way.
Three other papers are worth your time: children describing their own sleep trouble, a tiny handball trial with a clever twist, and a review showing how far medicine still is from matching an ADHD drug to a person in advance.
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What stands out to you in this research? Does it change how you understand or approach ADHD?