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right around 25 minutes, studies on mice in Florida Institute for Brain Repair

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I don't know if anybody watched this, animal testing is really upsetting (especially the crazy stuff I read that they did to monkeys) this one involves giving mother mice nicotine, I'm not for it but I'm going to put out there this study made me wonder some things. (arrangement of these thoughts is a total pain, i hate that about my adhd, takes me forever and it's still messed up)

They say that both "normal" and "adhd" mice found the escape hole in the same amount of time but the adhd mouse covered more ground, wasted more energy, and made a lot more mistakes. I'm trying to figure out that discrepancy, like, what was the normal mouse doing then, just sitting there?, if the adhd one was busy checking every hole again and again, for them both to find the escape hole in the same amount of time. How can they both find it in the same amount of time? Sorry, I don't know how to put my question together.

This intrigued me because I have noticed that I seem to almost instinctively feel the urge to rule out all possibilities before I zero in on the answer...It's almost like I know the answer but I have to know that all the other possibilities are wrong or what is happening with them. I see aan abnormal consistency in my wrong. Anybody else have this?

Second, they said in the impulsivity test they put the mouse on the bar stool and the adhd mouse sniffed more, put their nose over the edge more and actually jumped more than the non-adhd mouse. This reminds me of my curiosity. Example, is I feel I have to try every green tea on the planet (exaggeration) in a taste test. I'm very impulsive or compulsive or something about it, that I can't stop with my curiosity. Yes, it's getting costly, it hurts when I jump off the barstool.

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