71. ADHD stimulants do NOT impact the brain's attention networks?!?! with Dr. Nico Dosenbach

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Dr. Elise Fallucco interviews Dr. Nico Dosenbach about a study revealing that ADHD stimulants primarily affect arousal and reward systems rather than attention networks.

Send us Fan Mail Bench to Bedside: How ADHD Stimulants Really Work—Arousal and Reward, Not Attention Networks Dr. Elise Fallucco launches a new “Bench to Bedside” series and interviews Dr. Nico Dosenbach, senior author of a ground-breaking fMRI study published in CELL that found that stimulants do NOT significantly change the brain’s attention networks!?!?! Instead, effects are strongest in arousal (less drowsy, more wide awake) and reward/motivation systems (increasing pred...

People in this episode

Host: Elise Fallucco

Guest: Nico Dosenbach

Topics covered

• ADHD
• stimulants
• brain networks
• arousal
• reward systems
• fMRI study

Keywords

• ADHD
• stimulants
• attention networks
• arousal
• reward
• fMRI
• study

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: CELL

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