Dubai, Aug. 29 -- You likely are accustomed to encountering a range of menus in daily life, but there is one that may be new to you: a dopamine menu. Dr. Robert Wilfahrt, a family medicine physician at Mayo Clinic and an expert in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, explains.

"A dopamine menu is a rebranding of what psychologists or healthcare professionals previously called behavioral activation - ways to get yourself to do what's best for you, instead of what you feel like doing in the moment," Dr. Wilfahrt says.

In this case, the best route to getting that tough task done is to step away from it for a minute, do something else that feeds you energy and then dive back into the task.

The purpose? To stimulate dopamine -...