Understanding ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Feeling Brain / Edition 1

by Sandra K. Woods, Willis H. Ploof

Overview

‘Weiner's third textbook on motivation has more emphasis on emotion than its predecessors. There is also a new organization around basic metaphors... there is particularly good and up-to-date coverage of attributional approaches' - Cognition and Emotion

What is the significance of attaching meaning to events, people, ideas and objects by associating them with pain or pleasure? This question lies at the heart of this exploration into the biobehavioural underpinnings of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Integrating research findings from neuroscience with insights from clinical practice, the authors present their model, at the centre of which is the observation that those afflicte

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803974227
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/15/1997
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

(Deceased)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE MODEL
Introduction
Associated Neurobehavioral Processes
Temperament and Psychic Illness
Relevance of Temperament to the Model
PART TWO: BACKGROUND
Brief Description of the Disorder
The Psychomotor Stimulants
How Do They Work?
ADHD and Monoamine Function
PART THREE: BRAIN REWARD AND PUNISHMENT MECHANISMS: A CLOSER LOOK
Brain-Stimulation Reward
Conditioned Reward
Punishment Systems, Functional Interactions with Reward Systems
PART FOUR: TREATMENT: OUR PERSPECTIVE AND PRACTICE
Behavior Management, Psychotherapy
Pharmacotherapy
Adult ADHD
Some Additional Treatment Considerations
Long-term Stimulant Medication
Enduring Changes in Neuronal Function?