Understanding ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and the Feeling Brain [Hardcover]

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`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 afflictePART 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 Functionlӝ