Dr. Gary Small, M.D.

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Gary Small, M.D., is Chair of Psychiatry at Hackensack University Medical Center, and Physician in Chief for Behavioral Health Services at Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest, most comprehensive and integrated healthcare network. Dr. Small has often appeared on the TODAY show, Good Morning America, and CNN and is co-author (with his wife Gigi Vorgan) of 10 popular books, including New York Times bestseller, “The Memory Bible,” “The Small Guide to Anxiety,” and “The Small Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease.”

Tags: ADHD | working memory | emotional control
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What Is Executive Brain Function?

Dr. Small By Thursday, 22 September 2016 04:39 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Like many brain deficits, ADHD affects frontal lobe executive functioning, which coordinates everything we do by processing and organizing information.

Components of executive function can be broken down into several mental tasks:

• Working memory — very short-term memory that allows us to keep information in mind long enough to use it; for instance, remembering a new phone number just long enough to call it

• Emotional control — the ability to tolerate frustration, suppress impulses, and think before speaking and acting

• Problem solving — reasoning through solutions that may involve calculations, organizing information, and abstract thinking

• Mental activation — the ability to start and complete tasks, as well as remain alert and sustain effort throughout the task

Many symptoms of ADHD result from dysfunction of these executive abilities. Hyperactivity and impulsivity stem from poor emotional control.
 

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