Posted by utopizen on December 8, 2005, at 17:53:43
In reply to Re: Executive Function, posted by vbAgent on December 8, 2005, at 0:34:26
I just happened to do a whole presentation on executive dysfunction in psychopharma today =)
25-50% of ADDers have it.
It's this simple: Selectively being able to attend to a task means selectively NOT attending to an alternate task at the same given time.
ADD is, in essence, doing what is most attractive to you. This is clinically a problem because what is most attractive is not always most productive.
Executive Dysfunction is involved in the following such GOAL-ORIENTED tasks:
--Time management
--Inhibition of impulsitivity
--Planning ahead
--Staying on task
--Switching in-out of a given task to maintain productive, goal-oriented behavior.The key word: GOAL-ORIENTED behavior is selectively attended to in healthy subjects, and this is achieved by the healthy brain only because non-goal-oriented behavior is selectively NOT attended to and shunted out as to focus on the goal-oriented task.
=)
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