ADHD & Executive Functioning - Part 2 - Neuroanatomy of ADHD

Substantial research has accumulated to show that ADHD is more than simply a problem with attention, hyperactivity, or even impulse control. Many of the cognitive deficits associated with ADHD lie in the domain of executive functioning in neuropsychology. Since the executive functions provide for human self-regulation, all this suggests that ADHD is a disorder of self-regulation. This presentation will review a theory of ADHD that integrates these concepts into a more coherent and unifying model of ADHD. This model provides for a deeper understanding of the nature of ADHD and its associated cognitive and social deficits along with numerous implications for the management of the disorder.

Part 2 discusses the neuroanatomy of ADHD which turns out to be the neuroanatomy of executive functioning. And so ADHD has to be EFDD, executive functioning deficit disorder.

[tEo]

I've been listening to your lectures for a few years now and I'm always so appreciative when you go over the actual neuroanatomy. I'm studying for a neuroanatomy unit and, because I have ADHD myself, I find it way easier to grasp overwhelming & confusing concepts when I can just connect everything back to how it all differs in the ADHD brain. Thankfully I get to cover a lot of ground even just looking at ADHD alone, since it has such an imposing reach across so many different structures. I'm one of the many that are better with applied concepts over theoretical concepts, I suppose!

Anyway, thank you so much!

[PostThaMost]

Thank you so much for the work you do.

You may have already done so, but I would love to see a video that has information about stimulant medication potentially promoting brain development

[marcelvermeer]

Thank you so much for your great, very helpful
presentations/webinars, as always, much appreciated!

One minor typo in this video's title: "Execeutive".

[jarrodmaddux]

Has it been hypothesized that due to the developmental delay in these regions, that the connections and pathways that would have been created during those very important developmental periods had to make alternative pathways to or through other regions of the brain, effectively creating a metaphorical highway of unimproved backroads? Once these pathways are created and myelinated the brain will continue to use them even after the delayed regions fully develop. That is unless of course new pathways are formed through the proper processes. This would also account for why some of the dysfunction gets better as we age, since full brain development doesn't happen until the 20s. Basically our brains were forced to make pathways through regions they were never meant to take during the period of development where those regions were delayed but as those regions fully developed our continued growth was finally able to use the more appropriate pathways. This hypothesis would: 1. Explain why certain symptoms wane with age while others remain. 2. Why stimulants are effective treatments. 3. Why CBT is effective treatment. And 4. Why reduced activity in these regions is seen even though those regions are fully developed.

[xdeser]

ha hahaha, after years of being told its just how I apply myself thats the issue, learning that theres really a deep physical reason as to why I am like I am is really affirming. (Not that its an acceptable excuse to not try to do better, of course)

[ahmedmohmed]

a very detailed description of this disease that I have but what's the solution how to fix the situation?

[susanhenke]

Is their a higher risk for ADHD if you had infantile seizures ?

[angrohaha]

I wish i could reach out to you by any mean necessary, the thing is I live in Korea and we don't have many quality psychistrists like you. sad as hell

[terimarple]

Is this vaccine injury from childhood?