Unit II Homework: ADHD
Student’s name
Name of the University
Course Title Name
Name of the Instructor
Date of Submission
To: john.doe@gmail.com
From: professor.psychology.gmail.com
Subject: How to deal with ADHD.
Dear John,
I received your mail, and I hope you are doing great. ADHD is a condition that can be medically managed, and it is what has been responsible for the difficulties that you have been going through in your studies. ADHD is a medical condition that affects the brain, and patients usually have difficulties with paying attention, impulsivity, mood regulation, and, most significantly, general organization. Paying attention to problems may affect you as a student since you don’t concentrate and lose things. Sitting for sometimes becomes a problem, and you keep on acting and doing things without thinking. The brain structures involved include the brain’s frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the temporal lobe, and the occipital lobe. Since the brain is an organ that controls thinking, feeling, and behavior, it is divided into lobe sections. The brain’s frontal lobe is heavily affected by ADHD, explaining why such patients experience poor organization, planning, concentration, and even in decision-making processes.
This front lobe is responsible for problem-solving coordination, memory, control of impulses, decision making, among others. It affects the brain’s networks, which is made up of nerve cells known as neurons transmitting signals throughout the brain. The networks help in focus, planning, paying attention, the constant shifting of tasks and movement. It also affects the neurotransmitters, transmitting signals from a nerve cell to the other using the brain networks.
Children who have ADHD have their brain structures smaller and underdeveloped compared with children who do not have. Parts of the frontal lobe of the brain mature years later in people who have ADHD. The nerve cells, known as neurons, assist in the transmission of signals throughout the brain. Networks that operate differently with people with ADHD have been identified. Such networks are involved in planning, attention, shifting between tasks that are done, and ways of movement.
The biopsychological factors include the functionality of the chemical factors of the brain. The chemical balance of the brain affects how people think, their behavior, perception, and interact. The chemical imbalances affect the brain’s normal functions, affecting how people perform in schools and workplaces. It also includes the convergence between neuroscience and psychology. The physical damages to the brain affect the behavior of a person.
Emotion impacts on learning process since it influences memory retention and recall of the learned facts. Positive emotions help facilitate learning and contribute to academic achievements, moderated by self-motivation, and how learners become satisfied with the learning materials. Since confusion is not part of being emotional, it is just a disequilibrium state that may understand the subject matter.
The human brain is a complex system that processes information. The processing of information begins with inputs that are coded to the sensory organs. The physical stimuli like touch, heat, sound, or light photons are transformed into electrochemical signals from the brain. The sensory information is transformed repeatedly by the brain algorithms through bottom-up as well as top-down processing. For information to be processed, it has to be stored first. There are several types of memory, which includes sensory, long term, and working memories. Information gets encoded then the information is organized in the brain. This is based on how human subjects can retrieve memories. When the information is already stored, the memories gradually have to get retrieved from storage. Therefore, to remember past events is to reconstruct what exactly may have happened based on the brain’s things to store. Recall makes the brain retrieve a piece of earlier stored information and is triggered by a retrieval cue.
To increase success chances in classwork as well as other courses, I would advise that you see a pediatrician or a family doctor who, on the other hand, may refer you to a specialist like a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, a psychiatrist, psychologist, or a pediatric neurologist. It is essential finding medical evaluation first to check for other causes of the difficulties you are experiencing.
Best regards,
Professor.
References
Mattingly, G. W., Wilson, J., & Rostain, A. L. (2017). A clinician’s guide to ADHD treatment options. Postgraduate medicine, 129(7), 657-666. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00325481.2017.1354648
Danielson, M. L., Bitsko, R. H., Ghandour, R. M., Holbrook, J. R., Kogan, M. D., & Blumberg, S. J. (2018). Prevalence of parent-reported ADHD diagnosis and associated treatment among US children and adolescents, 2016. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 47(2), 199-212. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15374416.2017.1417860
Rommelse, N., Buitelaar, J. K., & Hartman, C. A. (2017). Structural brain imaging correlates ASD and ADHD across the lifespan: a hypothesis-generating review on developmental ASD–ADHD subtypes. Journal of Neural Transmission, 124(2), 259-271.