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Advanced Techniques for Improving Focus and Impulse Control Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) impacts attention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, affecting education, work, and social interactions. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by difficulties in maintaining attention, excessive hyperactivity, and impulsive behaviors. It significantly disrupts academic, professional, and social activities. Symptoms, often evident from childhood, include frequent forgetfulness, difficulty organizing tasks, lack of persistence in mentally demanding activities, and a tendency to interrupt others or act without considering consequences. Managing ADHD typically involves a combination of medications, behavioral therapies, and increasingly, innovative interventions like virtual reality that offer strategies to improve concentration and impulse control. These methods aim to maximize independence and enhance the quality of life by helping individuals structure their routines and develop adaptive social and professional skills. Approximately 5% of children and 2.5% of adults in Europe are affected by this disorder.

OCD is a chronic psychological illness that is characterised by severe obsessions and compulsions. It leads to repeated thoughts and behaviours. There are different themes of obsessions that lead to different behaviours: fear of dirt and contamination, counting the number of times an action is performed… These are therefore intrusive, constraining thoughts that lead to certain behaviours, as well as an increase in anxiety and intense suffering in daily life. About 1 in 100 adults — or between 2 to 3 million adults in the United States — currently have OCD.

Post-traumatic stress disorder occurs as a result of a traumatic event experienced or seen. It is a member of the family of psychiatric disorders and can have real consequences in the daily life of the sufferer. It is usually triggered by an event that has generated intense emotion for the person, usually relating to death, pain or violence. It can affect all areas of life, both psychologically and physically, from a personal, relational and professional point of view. It is very difficult for people with this disorder to control their thoughts and reactions to certain situations. About 10% of the world’s population is affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. Anyone can be affected at some point.