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Ep. 3: Russell Barkley, Ph.D. - Training, Learning, & the ADHD Brain

Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function

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How to Improve Executive Functioning

If you don't go back to these very basic ideas about what is executive functioning, you will choose the wrong strategies to try to ameliorate or rehabilitate deficits. So I teach it this way, even delay people. You can divide the brain into two pieces. The front part of the brain is where you apply that knowledge in daily social effective performance. It's where the knowledge meets the road. And so if you don't understand this difference, you may go down the road of trying to train people with executive deficits in skills and knowledge. But we want to help them perform the strategy and not just know the strategy.

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