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

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.

• | Author: Thomas E. Brown
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 02, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0415814251
• | ISBN-13: 9780415814256