I’ve been reading on a couple of topics recently – One is basically on music training and neuro-rehabilitation in neuro-degenerative diseases. The other is on what is theorized as the reward system in the brain, which includes the dopamine generating neurons, and the deficiency of dopamine, which factors into several different conditions. apparently ADHD, addictions to substances such as alcohol and cocaine, and narcolepsy are included.  (What? no mention of Parkinson’s?)

The article appears in Volume 1, issue 1,  2015, of the Journal of Reward Deficiency Synddromne at http://dx.doi.org/10.17756/jrds.2015-002  which is an online journal focused primarily on addictions and treatments. Other, more recent articles can be accessed freely. Worth a look, if ADHD and addictions are your field of interest.

As someone with a narcolepsy without cataplexy diagnosis, the article is interesting, especially since I have never been diagnosed as ADHD, which the authoors theorize are closely connected. Howewver, as one who has been known to multi-task well in the past, perhaps the ADHD element was never noticed because of my high IQ (g-intelligence, as some would call it). I could get away with reading Mad magazine in geometry class, tucked inside my  textbook, because I could keep up with the class while shifting my attention between the magazine, the teacher’s explanations, and the drawings on the chalkboard. Now, having slowed down due to Parrkinson’s, it might be apparent in he number of tasks started and left undone, the distractions of Facebook, and a general disorder.

Anyway, worth a thought or two of considefration…