{"product_id":"a-new-understanding-of-adhd-thomas-e-brown-9780415814249","title":"A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults: Executive Function Impairments","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Why can those with ADHD focus very well on some tasks while having great difficulty in focusing on other tasks they recognize as important? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How does brain development and functioning of persons with ADHD differ from others?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How do impairments of ADHD change from childhood through adolescence and in adulthood?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- What treatments help to improve ADHD impairments? How do they work? Are they safe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Why do those with ADHD have additional emotional, cognitive, and learning disorders more often than most others?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- What commonly-held assumptions about ADHD have now been proven wrong by scientific research?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsychiatrists, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas E. Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415814243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415814249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Thomas E. Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096676475135,"sku":"9780415814249","price":233.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-new-understanding-of-adhd-thomas-e-brown-9780415814249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}