The Nueva School's Innovative Learning Conference

This presentation will present an updated understanding of ADHD as impaired executive functions. It will also explain the puzzling fact that children, teens, and adults with ADHD are able to exercise their executive functions (focus, organization, alertness, working memory, emotional modulation, and self-management) very well in a few specific activities or tasks that interest them, even though they consistently demonstrate much difficulty in exercising those same executive functions in almost everything else they do, even for tasks and activities they recognize as important. Dr. Brown will describe how the brain "googles" for motivation and how ADHD impacts these processes in some situations but not in others. He will also describe how treatment for ADHD works.