Eli5 If adhd is caused by a lack of dopamine produced in the brain, why can’t we use dopamine promoter medication like we do with Parkinson’s for treatment?
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ADHD isn’t about an all around lack of dopamine. It’s more about how your brain doesn’t make it at certain times and does make it at others, and since that chemical is one of your “feel good because you did a good job” chemicals timing it wrong does bad things. It makes people feel excited when they didn’t really do anything and get no reward when they *do*, which makes it really hard to get motivated to do the right things instead of the wrong things.
We’d need some kind of magic pump to detect when people do “the right thing” in any situation and delivers dopamine. That’s… well beyond our capability because even people without ADHD can’t always agree on “the right thing”.
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