The 11th Timothy B. and Jane A. Burnett Seminar for Academic Achievement
Keynote Speaker: Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
Sponsored by the Academic Success Program for Students with LD and ADHD — a UNC-Chapel Hill Learning Center Program in the College of Arts and Sciences — and the UNC General Alumni Association. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thursday, Nov. 1 | 1-4:30 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center
Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. In the span of his career as a clinical scientist, educator and practitioner, he has written prolifically on the nature, assessment and treatment of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) and related disorders.
Dr. Barkley has developed one of the leading theories of executive functioning and its role in the nature of ADHD. From this theory, he has also developed numerous clinical implications concerning the diagnosis and management of ADHD. To learn more, visit russellbarkley.org.
Dr. Barkley’s presentation will focus on:
Understanding the nature of ADHD as it relates to each of the five major executive functions: working memory, self-management, emotional self-regulation, self-motivation and self-control
Developing a better understanding of how this theory leads to more effective interventions for individuals with ADHD.
Visit http://learningcenter.unc.edu/ for information about the UNC Learning Center programs. Also a link to his slides are the page.
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How am I supposed to function in life then?
Mr Dr Barkley! THANK YOU, this video changed my life, from this video I realized I am extremely Temporally Myopic!! Ive known I have been ADHD and was taking 20 mg twice a day for long time and I could only really see a week ahead or less even! Looking back I realized it affected EVERY one of my decisions in life!!! OMG so I tried higher dose and WOW omg I actually was not taking enough and thought I was just failing at everything and like had trouble with EVERY one of those executive function levels you explained. The thing is I actually had a injury as a baby almost where I had stitches above my eyebrow and so like its obvious my frontal lobe is going to be affected. The can't do what you know is so right I realize now! I realize that when I like actually needed to remember to do something I would not remember when I needed it. Things are so much clearer. I wouldn't of tried higher dose without this video and your explanation of executive function!!!!! THANK YOU MAN
Life CHANGED! Please upvote this so he sees it!! and other adhdr's!
Got an exam on executive function coming up. This guy has saved me.
This man is a guru for those of us with ADHD !!
Hmm so the "wall" that is need in executive function (as used by the Robinson Crusoe example), signifies a lack of boundaries between self and other people? This is very good for me to know! I am on a trial run of Concerta XL but am still having problems with boundaries between myself and others. I blamed myself thinking it was a willpower thing as the medication should be fixing that stuff right? Turns out I was wrong and I am very grateful to this video as I can take this example to the specialist next week and perhaps get the therapy treatment a little quicker as a higher priority. Thank you very much :)
Hmmmmm! Hypothetical assumption with regards to humans being the only ones of self direction by means of EF . The observations are correct but not limited to humans. Humans distinct ability for specific vocal and tonal frequencies that are being exercised within dialect structures formulating the associations by reinforcement in regards to ones environment. This leads to part of the problem with understanding yourselves in a world that has many many systems not yet understood and yet arrogantly treated otherwise. A problem with expertise in given fields is the tendency to elevate humans on a perpetual pedestal above all others intellectually isolating you from a natural environmental cohabitation with all other earthlings.
There are species on earth that do things that experts have no factual idea of how the inherent bio system within that species is capable of doing what its doing, process much more evolved than humans but they continue to put humans above all others prior to understanding the complexities. MAY BE THINGS SHOULD BE MORE CAREFULLY PHRASED BEFORE Uttering arrogance and ignorance, arrogance can neutralize ignorance and ignorance can overpower the will and the will can omit fact through denial implanting assumption for truth resulting in cognitive reality not actually reality manifesting the ego. Until humans can understand fully and make statements of absolute fact with regards to all other earthlings and the many as not yet understood delicate connections and governing forces, be it a suggestion in the best interest to make statements more like as far as we know, given as much as we know, given the human knowledge base is as yet incomplete. Good work!
Couldn't EFs be altered by Toxiplasmus Gondii?
As someone who has just started the long journey to try and get my life back on track again after diagnosed but untreated ADHD left me almost non-functional in all areas of my life, I have to say I appreciate finding this lecture. For the first time, every single symptom, deficit, or characteristic fit together to make a three-dimensional picture instead of just a short, semi-relevant list of the same vague symptoms.
I had gotten quite disheartened when researching the subject earlier because I saw so many people in 2014 blaming the person with ADHD for what usually amounted to being "flawed," "bad" or "lazy." You provided more than enough insight and evidence, however, to encourage me that this is what I need to disclose to my treatment team so that I can rejoin life, regardless of what other opinions may be.