Epigenetic age across development in children and adolescents ...

In 1996 American psychologists Professors Bruce Pennington and Sally Ozonoff conducted a lengthy review on research articles concerning problems in executive functioning, concluding that they’re significantly more likely to occur in autistic people and those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Pennington & Ozonoff 1996).

This finding has been reproduced innumerable times since then, and in 2013 slow-wave prefrontal activity was certified by the Food and Drug Administration as a biomarker for ADHD. Slow frontal lobe electrical activity explains why these kids have poor executive functioning: Their rational brains lack proper control over their emotional brains, whic

If we have ADD and we are constantly upbraided about our organizational selves, about our ability to keep track of what we are doing, we will naturally cut ourselves off from painful contact with our timekeeping selves, and we will become chronic procrastinators.

their motivation is affected by two aspects of ADHD: an interest-based nervous system and emotional hyperarousal.

Work exploring the link between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is characterized by impulsivity and mind wandering, suggests that ADHD-prone individuals fail to accurately trade off the value of their thoughts with respect to the demands of the external task (Franklin et al. 2014).