Name: ADD/ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Uploaded: 2017-02-11T03:54:07.000Z
Duration: 28 min 15 s
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Past simple

[Understood for learning & attention issues]

[Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D. — Associate Director,]

[Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders]

attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder—or

some people still call it "ADD," attention-deficit disorder—

since way back in 1902. But from 1902 until 1980,

it was all about little boys who couldn't sit still,

couldn't shut up, and were driving everybody nuts.

a number of times. There were different formulations.

Since 1980, which is when they first changed the name

of the disorder to include the words "attention deficit,"

a behavior problem but far more a problem

And we also learned that there are many people

that's usually the least of it. It's the attention problems

that tend to make more trouble for people,

particularly as they get a little bit older

One thing that's important to be clear about

from the very beginning is that ADHD has nothing to do

with how smart a person is. There's some people

who have this who are like super, super, super smart.

Others, high average, middle average, low average, slow.

I treat people for this who are like university professors

and doctors and lawyers and big shots in business.

Some people have trouble doing the basics.

You could be anything along the IQ spectrum

and still have ADHD. It has nothing to do

with how smart you are. The other thing to know

is that this is a problem—a set of problems—

that include a wide range of characteristics,

and what I'd like to do today is to describe for you

some of the characteristics of what we call ADHD,

give some examples of them, and then talk a little bit

One thing that's important is that people—

one of the main things that people with ADHD

That when they're listening or reading or working

but then it sort of drifts off, and then they're back,

and then they drift off, and it drifts off again,

It's similar, in a way, to the problem you have

with a cell phone where you're in an area

where you don't have good reception. You can get

part of it, and then the message keeps fading in and out.

The other thing is that they often have a problem

with being distracted. Like anybody else,

they see and hear things that are going on around them.

They have thoughts going through their head.

But most people, if they have something they've got

to focus on, can push that stuff out of the way and focus

on what they've got to do. People with ADHD—

it's real hard for them to do that. They'll be sitting

in the classroom trying to listen to what's going on,

or perhaps they'll be in a meeting or sitting down

trying to read something or write something,

and somebody drops a pencil, and they have to sort of

for a couple of minutes. Then they're thinking

about some TV show they saw the night before.

And then they're back on task again for a minute,

so they're thinking about some conversation they had

with somebody two hours ago. And then they're back

on task again for a few minutes, and then they're looking

out the window like anybody else will from time to time,

but they're likely to sit and watch the squirrel go up

the tree a little longer than somebody else

and be checking out the traffic and the cloud formation,

Then they're back on task again for a few minutes,

and they'll be thinking about what they're going to do

when this is over and how soon is this thing

going to be over anyhow. I've got things I've got to do.

And what am I going to have for supper tonight?

All these things are coming in all at one time,

and it's almost like you're trying to watch TV

and you've got four different stations all coming in

at the same time on one channel, and it gets kind of hard

But the thing that's puzzling about this,

that really makes it very difficult for people to understand,