IUBio

impulsivity

Cijadrachon cijadra at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Sun Sep 27 10:51:07 EST 1998


"Alex K." <alex-k at gmx.net> wrote:
>Can anybody tell me the connection between attention and impulsivity?

Can tell you someting else  that has to do with your question in a
way, though I am  not sure you understand  what I mean.

(See posts before.) If I sort of join the other CPU and keep all
distracting thinking off some tasks can be done quite fast, if I focus
on the task.
"Stress", negative emotions, too much upsetment can mess with fast
reactions.
If the sequencer already knows a thing and I lock in, too, or it does
not know it, so basically it is a lot to do with me, that makes a
difference, too.
Generally how tired or drugged areas  of my own CPU or the sequencer's
CPU are, has a lot to do with stuff, too.

And that is not necassirly to the same amount.

It is possible that the sequencer is still working remarkably well
while I am  already pretty tired or drugged.

Once friends got on my nerves that I should try to keep the CPUs
joined until I gave in and tried it several minutes, to come to the
conlusion that I am  not out for that for the next years again;
it seriously started to mess up many subprograms of the sequencer.

Apart from that though I know it is usually having body movement
control it sort of spooks me out to watch and not even get a fraction
of what it is doing, unless I am so drugged that I am  so
disconnected that I  can watch without bothering it and am in the mood
for it.


I assume if I wanted something repetitive to  be done real fast, I'd
first try to get the sequencer to be able to do it alone, then to do
them faster, and then I'd also focus on the task, but not really on
the sequencer's subprograms if it manages alone well enough, but only
on movements which are too slow for  my taste or not yet running well
enough "automatically".
Might try to go to sort of an Asian work attitude that I heard from
some branch there, to do with being in the here and now and focussed
fully to a task.

That tends to see to  highest combination of speed and accuracy.


Drugs some use here for staying awake easier  messing up accuracy
among others are caffeine tablets (little) and  guarana (quite a bit).
Pregnenolone saw to quite a bad mistake rate, too, and headaches, and
to  me seemed the sort of stuff to mess up the own head real bad if
one were to empty a whole pack at  once, and I did not see it one the
market anymore last time I was to the USA, though it might still be
around.

Some drugs give the the impression, that I am faster on them, but am
distracted very vast.
So speed might be up as  long as both CPUs are working together, but
maybe losing track real fast, and energy balances feeling more untuned
/ not as "smooth".

Iodining up the thyroids above healthy max, among other stuff  there
is sort of a nervousness coming up, and generally a lot of energy
processing is running too high,
though I did not watch what that does to do with your question.
I am just fairly sure that that has to do with it, too.

If the thyroids were real low on iodine or real high,
I assume it might make quite a difference.

Too high or too low on sugar, too.

And  amount of sleep  had.

What Frank mentioned with people with attention deficits often has
other causes.

I am  not sure if that'd help much.

There might be energy regulations systems and the front and own
systems having less celss and working less well with the MBD ones, but
different ones having different amounts of cells gone dead in
different places.

So if the area I call front computer is damaged severely  they'd not
have the same amount of tracking power, 
if the own areas in the cholinergic limbic systems are damaged it can
be like with me feeling like a computer that should have gigabyte
processors but just has megabyte, but gigabyte of data  that should
be processed accodrding to the people around,
so that there might be a delay downloading, processing and outputting
data, 
front half of cingulate gyrus damages are too long to explain here,
but that'd make a difference, too,
and so basically with MBD folks  with an attention defecit compared
to brains with cell numbers the own CPU areas I just mentioned +  one
other one that might be pretty  important, only I don't know the neuro
name of it (between me and  the "front computer"), could be so
damaged,
that that'd make so many differences, that if you don't know the brain
well  enough from the inside or they are able to tell you I am not
sure their data would be of that much help.

Unless you are after what damages in what brainstuff see to what
differences.



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