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Attentional Functions and Stress, Implications for ADHD

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Attentional and executive functions are related to cognitive processes represented by large scale coordinated neural activities that enable behavioral functions, and their dysfunctions are related psychopathological symptoms that manifest in ADHD, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other neuropsychiatric disorders (Teicher et al. 2003; Savitz et al. 2006; Bob 2011). For more detailed understanding how stress may influence ADHD seems to be very important that various functional changes in ADHD and PTSD are likely similar and it is possible to expect that various processes described in stress related disorder will be important in ADHD etiology (Ford et al. 2000; Adler et al. 2004; Daud and Rydelius 2009; Martinez et al. 2016).

Portions of ideas in this chapter were previously published in the book: Bob, P. (2015). The Brain and Conscious Unity: Freud’s Omega. New York, NY: Springer. Included with permission from Springer.

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