ADHD Makes Tracking Time Tricky

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Rubia believes this is evidence that faulty time perception causes the major symptoms of ADHD, by making children perceive even short periods of inactivity as inordinately long and boring. Because novelty-seeking and risky behaviour increase dopamine levels, children with ADHD may be become hyperactive as a way of "self-medicating" with dopamine.

Catalin Buhusi of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston is an author of another paper .... He says the results fit his own research on how intense activity or distraction warps our time perception, so that time appears to fly.

Buhusi's theory is that when we are engaged in an intense task, the working memory required to execute it is too large to allow simultaneous tracking of time, so it appears to pass without us noticing. "We know that disruptions, distractions or plain simple fun have the ability to disrupt tracking of time in normal people," he says. "I think ADHD children have even more of a problem with it."