<P>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: </P>
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<P>- Why can those with ADHD focus very well on some tasks while having great difficulty in focusing on other tasks they recognize as important? </P>
<P>- How does brain development and functioning of persons with ADHD differ from others?</P>
<P>- How do impairments of ADHD change from childhood through adolescence and in adulthood?</P>
<P>- What treatments help to improve ADHD impairments? How do they work? Are they safe?</P>
<P>- Why do those with ADHD have additional emotional, cognitive, and learning disorders more often than most others?</P>
<P>- What commonly-held assumptions about ADHD have now been proven wrong by scientific research?</P>
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<P>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.</P>