A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults
eBook - ePub

A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults

Executive Function Impairments

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults

Executive Function Impairments

About this book

For over 100 years, ADHD has been seen as essentially a behavior disorder. Recent scientific research has developed a new paradigm which recognizes ADHD as a developmental disorder of the cognitive management system of the brain, its executive functions. This cutting-edge book pulls together key ideas of this new understanding of ADHD, explaining them and describing in understandable language scientific research that supports this new model. It addresses questions like:

- Why can those with ADHD focus very well on some tasks while having great difficulty in focusing on other tasks they recognize as important?

- How does brain development and functioning of persons with ADHD differ from others?

- How do impairments of ADHD change from childhood through adolescence and in adulthood?

- What treatments help to improve ADHD impairments? How do they work? Are they safe?

- Why do those with ADHD have additional emotional, cognitive, and learning disorders more often than most others?

- What commonly-held assumptions about ADHD have now been proven wrong by scientific research?

Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other medical and mental health professionals, as well as those affected by ADHD and their families, will find this to be am insightful and invaluable resource.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Series Page
  3. Half Title page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Epigraph Page
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 35 Myths about ADHD and why they are Wrong
  11. 2 A New Paradigm for an Old Disorder ADHD as Impaired Executive Functions
  12. 3 What Research Reveals About the Causes and Unfolding Nature of ADHD
  13. 4 How the New Model Changes Assessment of ADHD in Children and Adults
  14. 5 How Treatments for ADHD Affect the Brain and Improve Executive Functions
  15. 6 Why Many Learning and Psychiatric Disorders so often Co-occur with ADHD
  16. References
  17. Index