Posted by garnet71 on March 19, 2009, at 10:53:49
In reply to Re: ADD meds/motivation/concentration, posted by desolationrower on March 17, 2009, at 14:22:39
Hi d/r!!!
Oh I should have used past tense-my son did grow out of the H in ADHD.
I'm not sure I understand what that abstract says. I have access to the full text journals through my Uni but am too lazy or impatient to go retrieve them lol. When they say "rightward bias" - do they mean tendancy to process thought using the right brain?
If I am reading this correctly the first statement that said "Previous research with neurotypical children found a rightward bias with right-hand use and a leftward bias with left-hand use"
Means that for ADD children, they have the opposite cognitive dominance in comparison with non-ADD children. For ADD-lefthanded use left brain; righthanded use right brain; for non-ADD-lefthanded use right brain; righthanded use left brain. Am I reading this incorrectly?
What does I and C subtypes mean? I guess I should Google it huh
AD/HD-I = showed leftward bias irrespective of hand use
AD/HD-C = showed rightward bias irrespective of hand use"Conclusion: These findings suggest that the subtypes represent two distinct disorders and that, unlike ADHD-C, ADHD-I may not be the result of right hemisphere dysfunction."
That would be very interesting if I understood the parameters I questioned :))
Improve by switching hand dominance? That's an interesting thought. I can tell you that I've been forced to do that throughout my life. Don't laugh at me when I tell you this. Ok, it's ok to laugh I laugh about it know. I am mechanically retarded. I cannot use devices, tools, machinary. I hardly remember anything about my childhood--but remember my first week of kindergarten. I could not learn to use the scissors. I remember looking at the left-handed scissors with the turquoise rubber handles and the plain metal ones for righthanded use. I thought because I was left handed I had to use the left-handed scissors, but was trying to use them w/my right hand so they didn't work. I have to watch others use "tools" to learn how to do things. So I was watching how other people were doing it. I ended up using scissors/cutting with my right hand ever since. It sounds so stupid, but I think it was traumatic for me. I remember being so frustrated I couldn't cut paper like everyone else!! To this day, I can't use scissors with my left hand. I also got my mouth taped my first week of kindergarten, for speaking out, lol. Big piece of masking tape over my mouth. I never had a problem w/school ever since. If that happened today, the school would be sued.
I think stuff like this really hurt my self esteem, because it was one thing after another that I could not do. Like sewing class/home ec in 7th grade. I could not ever thread the damn sewing machine. I had to be shown over and over and over each time. I've never met anyone who couldn't do so many simple things w/devices
And I'm not clumsy or uncoordinated at all. Just mechanically retarded. Somehow though, I know all about electricity, according to my military ASVAB test. Intuitively, I know how electricity wokrs, but on the mechanical portion, I did sooo bad. And after bootcamp, like taking apart and cleaning my weapon and putting it back together--everyone in the class could remember how to do it, but I had to have the person next to me help me every time. I always felt like such an idiot.
Shooting an M-16 in boot camp was like the scissors incident..lol. So you had to be real fast and load the bullets into the cartridges over and over and everything was timed, shooting at multiple targets in various postures. I didn't have time to learn how to shoot with my left hand--because I had to look at the guys on both sides of me to watch how they did everything to learn. There was no one shooting left handed around me, and I can only learn to use devices from seeing how other people do it. So, I shoot right-handed ever since. I actually did quite well too, was good at aiming I think, but I also think how accurate the weapon's sight is effects your performance. Some of them are crap and people fail I think because of the weapon, not because they can't shoot. I did not do so well last time I qualified, but then again my eyes have gotten worse since then.
Anyway, cognitive science is exciting (is that what it's called?)!! I wish I had taking some classes in this subject through college.
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