Ebook: What causes ADHD?: understanding what goes wrong and why

This book is essential reading for scientists, clinicians, and students ... The book offers as complete a picture of the likely causes of ADHD as current science permits. [In the book, the author] takes the important step of considering cognitive and behavioral deficits in ADHD in their developmental context, shedding light on the disorder's age-, gender-, and subtype-related complexities.-Dust jacket.;Conceptual context: ADHD's controversies; Defining "disorder" -- How does ADHD work?: Neural systems; Attention and arousal; Executive functioning or cognitive control; Motivation; Motor control and timing -- Where does ADHD come from?: Multiple pathways; Genetic effects; Uncommon experiential risk factors; Common experiential risk factors -- Integration: Multiple pathways reconsidered; Conclusion.