Executive dysfunction refers to difficulties in the cognitive processes – executive functioning skills – that are responsible for goal-setting, planning, organizing, initiating tasks, and self-monitoring, commonly observed in conditions like ADHD, and it can significantly impact daily functioning and task execution.
According to the Wall Street Journal, some 10 million American adults suffer from ADD/ADHD. Even worse, less than 25 percent of these individuals know they even have it (but their wives probably do!). Typically, the symptoms of ADD/ADHD first show themselves in childhood. However, as we mentioned, many, if not most, never receive a diagnosis or […]
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Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, more commonly known as ADD/ADHD, are conditions that can be difficult to diagnose as well as treat. Found in both children and adults, they can not only make the learning process in school much more difficult, but also affect a person socially as well. To make sure
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If you love them, you have to let them go. Or do you? Does this folksy wisdom hold up in a world where every kid has a cellphone with their parents on speed dial? A world where helicopter dads and tiger moms are lurking around every corner? According to a new book, How to Raise
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Menopause is hardly a walk in the park for most women. Hot flashes, emotional outbursts, and loss of memory are only some of the varying symptoms women experience at that point in their life. Some of the most detrimental losses to cognitive ability from menopause affect executive functioning (i.e., Attention, memory, problem solving, and organization). However, a new
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“My wife is the Jekyll & Hyde of New York. She can go from lovely to livid in seconds. Sometimes I think our three-year-old has greater frustration tolerance than she does.” — Jack, New York. Jack’s wife has ADD/ADHD. The traditional view of ADD/ADHD as a problem of attention and focus has broadened in the
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When it comes to ADD/ADHD, impatience may be the one symptom that frustrates husbands and wives equally, although perhaps for different reasons. The wife sees a husband who may not be able to sit still, rushes to interrupt, or moves from one thing to the next without coming up for air. The husband, though, is driven to this
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Do girls also have ADHD? The answer is yes. ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. There are three basic traits that define ADHD –impulsiveness, hyperactivity and inattentiveness. However, hyperactivity and impulsiveness appear to be more descriptive of this condition in boys, while inattentiveness is more common in girls. It is easy to quickly recognize boys
A New York Times article lifts the veil on what has become an open secret in many top performing high schools in the nation: Prescription stimulants used to help children with ADHD are being sold on the black market to healthy students seeking a quick fix to increase focus, concentration and test performance. The Times
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