Brainstorms by Joseph H. Horacek - 9780765702838

BrainstormsUnderstanding and Treating Emotional Storms of ADHD from Childhood through Adulthood\nAuthor(s): Joseph H. Horacek\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Jason Aronson Publishers, United States\nImprint: Jason Aronson Publishers\nISBN-13: 9780765702838, 978-0765702838\nSynopsis\nNeurophysiologic disorders that impair normal learning as well as social and emotional development afflict at least 5-8 percent of the school-aged children in this country. Significant symptoms often persist into adulthood and many people struggle for a lifetime, never understanding what continues to hamper their functioning. Brainstorms examines questions surrounding the possible neurobiological underpinnings of the emotionally hyperactive and hyperreactive components of ADHD and related disorders. These 'pre-psychological' substrata may, for example, be fundamental to what we think of as temperament. Here is where the regulation of selective attention and the filtration of noise reside, along with the ne.