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Ep 2: Russell Barkley, Ph.D. - Unraveling Human Self-Regulation

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

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The Dimension of Executive Functioning in the Population

There's a bell-shaped curve for each of the seven executive abilities, he says. At what point along this dimension do we determine that somebody is disabled or disordered? For me and many others, it's when you cannot function effectively in some major life activity such as school, work, peer relationships, or family functioning. Up until that point, it's simply normal human variation in an ability. But if that variation becomes so deficient that you can't function effectively and harm is occurring to you because of that, you now have a disorder, a disability and you're impaired.

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