A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults: Executive Function Impairments

by Thomas E. Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415814243
• ISBN13: 9780415814249
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"