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What's New? Click here for a Spanish translation of this page. Chascar aquí para una traducción española de esta página. Read an article for educators about how understanding of ADHD/ADD has changed. Read a listing of myths and facts about ADD. Dr. Brown discusses ADHD in 2 brief videos on WebMD: "ADHD and Your Child" and Listen to a podcast interview of Dr. Brown Article: Conflicting Models of Exec Function in ADHD (PDF) In This Issue of:
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Welcome to DrThomasEBrown.com
a website that offers:
A New Understanding of Attention Deficit Disorder
Although ADD/ADHD has been recognized for over 100 years, it has usually been seen as essentially a behavior problem. Yet many with ADD/ADHD suffer not from behavior problems so much as from chronic problems with focusing their attention, organizing their work, sustaining their effort, and utilizing short-term memory.
It's time for a new understanding of Attention Deficit Disorder!
This website offers a new perspective on this disorder, one based on current clinical and neuroscience research. It presents a model of ADD/ADHD as essentially a problem with executive functions, the management system of the brain. It describes how a child or adult with ADD/ADHD can focus very well on a few activities that intensely interest them, yet be unable to focus adequately on most other tasks of daily life. It explains how ADD/ADHD often looks like a weakness in willpower, but isn't.
Read an explanation of Dr. Brown's
new model of ADD
Read excerpts from his new book, Attention
Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults
Read Dr. Brown's biographical summary
| Information for Professionals: Excerpts from bestseller edited textbook on ADD and comorbidities Information about the Brown ADD Rating Scales and Diagnostic Forms Downloadable PDFs of useful articles on ADD Summaries of research about ADD diagnosis, medications, and ADD with high IQ |
Information for Patients and Families: Video clips of Dr. Brown in roundtable conversations about ADD Description of Dr. Brown's services for patients and families, workshops and lectures List of recommended books on topics related to ADD Links to other sites offering helpful information about ADD |
Now Available in Paperback
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New Book by Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
Attention Deficit Disorder:
The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults
(Yale University Press) (Click here for more information about this book.)
"Brown's book is thorough and compassionate. Consider it essential
reading if you are concerned about a child or an adult who may be struggling
with this syndrome."
The Baltimore Sun
"This intelligent book does a better job of explaining AD/HD
than any book in recent memory. It's a must-read for anyone with an interest
in AD/HD, whether of a personal or professional nature."
ADDitude Magazine
"Tom Brown's latest book... challenges our current definition
of ADHD... and provides a very clear structure for defining and understanding
this complex set of brain functions that are often impaired in those with
ADHD."
Journal of Attention Disorders
For information on how to order this book:
From the United States, click
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From the United Kingdom and other European countries, click
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