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

Good afternoon everyone is Susan Crawford for Attitude magazine. Our

guest today is Dr Ari Tupman who is a psychologist and the author of

more attention less deficit and understand your brain get more done.

Dr. Hefflin speaks about succeeding in life with ADHD at chat each year.

He's a frequent columnist in attitude and has written and

spoken frequently on mastering intentional issues and memory. So with that

introduction let me turn it over to Dr.

Tuckman to give you a brief introduction on the topic of

working memory.

Okay, it is great to be here.

Love Attitude magazine and I love doing presentations. So hopefully this will be a fast moving and useful hour.

So let's talk about first of all just what is working memory that you know what does it mean

what does it do how is it relevant to ADHD it's a term that you might have come

across in your travels of the world of ADHD or perhaps not.

So working memory is the most immediate type of memory that we have lots of different kinds of memory that when we talk

about memory there's really many different kinds.

So working memory is the shortest form of memory that we have and what it is what it does is you know perhaps one of the

ways of explaining it is to say that it stores what we are paying attention

to so information comes either from attention to

our own thoughts,

but information comes in to working memory.

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