CAA ADHD Neuroscience and Brain-Based Understanding Flashcards
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Which executive function deficit in ADHD involves difficulty perceiving and managing time accurately?
Answer: Time blindness
Time blindness, a term popularized by Barkley, refers to the ADHD-related neurological difficulty in perceiving the passage of time accurately.
Task initiation difficulties in ADHD are neurological because of:
Answer: Insufficient prefrontal activation for non-preferred tasks due to low dopamine
Without sufficient dopamine and norepinephrine, the prefrontal cortex lacks the neurological activation needed to initiate non-stimulating tasks.
Why does 'body doubling' work neurologically for many ADHD clients?
Answer: Another person's presence increases arousal and external accountability, supporting focus
Body doubling leverages the ADHD brain's responsiveness to social context and external accountability to increase neurological activation for tasks.
The delayed maturation of which brain region most directly causes impulsivity in ADHD?
Answer: Prefrontal cortex
Delayed maturation of the prefrontal cortex, which governs impulse inhibition, directly causes the impulsivity seen in ADHD.
The neurological basis for ADHD's variable performance is most accurately described as a problem with:
Answer: Activation and arousal regulation, not ability or effort
ADHD impairs the brain's ability to self-activate consistently, making performance variable despite unchanged ability or effort.
An ADHD coach explaining brain-based research to a client primarily aims to:
Answer: Reduce shame and shift self-blame toward neurological understanding
Sharing neuroscience helps clients understand their challenges are neurological rather than character deficits, which reduces shame and increases self-compassion.