Cars and Traffic – helping the mind of an ADHD child with neuroplasticity…
The root of many of the problems that children afflicted with ADHD face are, for the most part, neurologically and connectivity based. The simplest way to imagine such a serious and complex problem that millions of children, and even adults, struggle with is to conceptualize the following analogy which includes cars and traffic.
Picture thousands of vehicles trying to enter a very simple network of highways that cannot handle the volume of traffic. These cars, and in turn their drivers, become incredibly frustrated and there are serious blockages in traffic flow. If one were to build many more roads and an elegantly complex network of superhighways then this very common traffic congestion problem would alleviate itself and vehicles would flow freely without delay and with little to any congestion. Imagine if these cars were neurons and signals within the brain itself and that the roads were connections in the brain from region to region or hemisphere to hemisphere.
Picture thousands of vehicles trying to enter a very simple network of highways that cannot handle the volume of traffic. These cars, and in turn their drivers, become incredibly frustrated and there are serious blockages in traffic flow. If one were to build many more roads and an elegantly complex network of superhighways then this very common traffic congestion problem would alleviate itself and vehicles would flow freely without delay and with little to any congestion. Imagine if these cars were neurons and signals within the brain itself and that the roads were connections in the brain from region to region or hemisphere to hemisphere.
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