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> Studies have found CBD and THC medications may help treat anxiety, autism symptoms, ADHD, dementia behaviors, and psychiatric conditions. However, more research is needed specific to intellectual disabilities and challenging behavior. (AI summary)

i suspect that is true. i've been talking about AD[H]D lately and thinking about it in relation to those cortical AI models, and the sparse networks based on them.

a small subset of the soup activates for any given context. this is somewhat what allows you to *have* contextual memory in the first place. they found that adhd brains have a reduced neural pruning factor as well. so it seems like a 'normal' brain has subsets of the forest active at any given moment (with AI simulations showing this making learning and reasoning varied tasks MUCH more efficient) while an adhd brain isn't shutting off the trees. stuff is more interconnected, but this causes issues with focus (self reports.)

there seems to be a common theme of retardants that would make a normal person go :blobcatgoogly: cause an adhd person to go :comfystoner:, as though inhibiting the synapses is indirectly causing them to express the appropriately smaller trees. :neocat_thonk: