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References: The ADHD Brain

  1. Executive functions - Wikipedia - The cognitive-science treatment of the skill set this chapter organizes around: working memory, inhibition, flexibility, and their development and measurement.

  2. Prefrontal cortex - Wikipedia - Anatomy and function of the brain's executive suite, including its long maturation timeline — the biology behind this chapter's construction-schedule story.

  3. Reward system - Wikipedia - The dopamine-driven circuits of wanting, motivation, and reinforcement that this chapter's broken-discount-rate economist runs on.

  4. ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control - Russell A. Barkley - Guilford Press - Barkley originated the influential theory reframing ADHD as a disorder of self-regulation and executive function rather than attention — the intellectual foundation of this chapter's "steering, not shortage" model, including his concept of time blindness.

  5. A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults: Executive Function Impairments - Thomas E. Brown - Routledge - Brown's orchestra-conductor analogy for executive function — the musicians are skilled; the conductor cues them — is the most widely taught picture of why ability and performance separate in ADHD.

  6. Russell Barkley Fact Sheets - russellbarkley.org - The researcher's own concise fact sheets on executive function, the 30% developmental delay rule of thumb, and evidence-based management.

  7. ADHD - NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health - Federal research overview including the neuroscience and brain-development findings this chapter summarizes.

  8. ADHD - APA Topics - American Psychological Association - The APA's evidence summaries on ADHD's cognitive and behavioral science, written for non-specialists.

  9. How to ADHD - Jessica McCabe - The companion site to the popular channel: brain-science explainers ("brain hacks" grounded in executive-function research) in the friendliest format available for teens and adults.

  10. ADHD and Sleep - Sleep Foundation - Clinician-reviewed explainer on the two-directional ADHD-sleep relationship this chapter introduces, including delayed sleep phase.