CAA CAA ADHD Neuroscience and Brain-Based Understanding 3

Question 1

Which executive function deficit in ADHD involves difficulty perceiving and managing time accurately?

Accepted Answer

Time blindness

Answer

Time blindness, a term popularized by Barkley, refers to the ADHD-related neurological difficulty in perceiving the passage of time accurately.

Question 2

Task initiation difficulties in ADHD are neurological because of:

Accepted Answer

Insufficient prefrontal activation for non-preferred tasks due to low dopamine

Answer

Without sufficient dopamine and norepinephrine, the prefrontal cortex lacks the neurological activation needed to initiate non-stimulating tasks.

Question 3

Why does 'body doubling' work neurologically for many ADHD clients?

Accepted Answer

Another person's presence increases arousal and external accountability, supporting focus

Answer

Body doubling leverages the ADHD brain's responsiveness to social context and external accountability to increase neurological activation for tasks.

Question 4

The delayed maturation of which brain region most directly causes impulsivity in ADHD?

Accepted Answer

Prefrontal cortex

Answer

Delayed maturation of the prefrontal cortex, which governs impulse inhibition, directly causes the impulsivity seen in ADHD.

Question 5

The neurological basis for ADHD's variable performance is most accurately described as a problem with:

Accepted Answer

Activation and arousal regulation, not ability or effort

Answer

ADHD impairs the brain's ability to self-activate consistently, making performance variable despite unchanged ability or effort.

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