Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin and you are listening to Attitude magazine's ADHD experts audio.

Our topic today is the brain behavior connection in children with attention deficit disorder and our guest

speaker is Dr. Joel Nigg. Research on the neurobiological underpinnings of ADHD

has really exploded over the last 20 years and our understanding of how the brain pays attention

and how the brain processes information and how this is different between children with

ADHD and without ADHD has improved substantially and we've learned that the

neurobiology of ADHD is not the same for all children despite the diagnosis.

So we're very fortunate today to have Dr. Nick is our speaker.

He is a clinical psychologist and a professor in the

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Oregon Health and

Sciences University at OSHU in Portland, Oregon, where he directs the ADHD research program and is also director of the

Division of Psychology.

He's the author of what causes ADHD, understanding what goes wrong and why as well as almost 200

peer-reviewed scientific papers related to the neuropsychological

cognitive and temperamental correlates of child ADHD and also MRI-based research. and NIG will discuss how the ADHD brain develops, how attention works in the brain, why some kids can

pay lots of attention to a video game but not a lecture at school, how emotions processed

by the ADHD brain, how the ADHD brain structural volume and

white matter differs from neurotypical ADHD brains, and why we should see the

ADHD brain as a partially built communications network and what that means

for treating it.

Dr Nick, thank you so much for joining us today.

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