282- Secrets of the ADHD Brain: How Brain Imaging Helps Us Understand and Treat Attention Deficit

ADHD Experts Podcast

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Hallowell, Adhd, Mental Health, 504, Add, Iep, Deficit, Additude, Medication, Disorder, Attention, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Posner, M.D., discusses recent advances in the neuroscience of ADHD, including how neural systems and brain regions differ from those in individuals with a neurotypical brain, and how ADHD treatments impact those brain systems.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.
0:10.0	Hello everyone and we're glad you can attend Attitudes Weekly ADHD
0:18.4	experts webinar. Just an introductory note before we get started.
0:23.5	If you've listened to one of our webinars before, you know we offer attendees, a certificate of attendance.
0:30.0	When the webinar ends, a post-event survey will pop up.
0:34.0	It will list three questions about the quality of the webinar,
0:38.0	followed by three questions titled,
0:40.0	Required for Certificate.
0:42.0	If you would like a certificate of attendance email to you, you should
0:45.1	answer those three questions. If you don't want a certificate, obviously don't answer
0:50.1	them. So today's webinar takes an in-depth view of the ADHD brain as researchers
0:56.1	make major strides in uncovering the neuroscience behind it and how that differs
1:01.9	from the neurotypical brain.
1:04.7	Brain imaging, structural MRI, functional MRI, and brain connectivity techniques is giving the
1:11.4	world a better understanding of how the ADHD brain works and how treatment affects it.
1:17.0	All the studies and all the data from those studies are enabling researchers to dismiss many of the myths about ADHD, among those
1:27.4	diagnosed with the condition as well as those unaffected by it. We are very happy to have Dr. Jonathan Posner here today to tell us
1:37.5	about the latest science behind the ADHD brain. He is Associate Professor of
1:42.4	Psychiatry at Columbia University and Board certified in
1:47.1	Adult and Child Psychiatry.
1:50.0	Dr Posner has been treating adults and children with ADHD for more than a decade.
1:55.0	He is director of Columbia University's MRI Research Laboratory,
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