1. RELACIÓN ENTRE EL MODELO HÍBRIDO DE LAS FUNCIONES EJECUTIVAS Y EL TRASTORNO POR DÉFICIT DE ATENCIÓN CON HIPERACTIVIDAD.
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Ramos Galarza, Carlos Alberto and Pérez Salas, Claudia Paz
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EXECUTIVE function , *HYPERACTIVITY , *ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder , *NEUROPSYCHOLOGY , *MENTAL health , *METACOGNITION - Abstract
The executive functions encompasses some mental skills that permit the metacognitive and behavioral regulation. When these cognitive components are affected. they produce some difficulties in social, academic, personal and family parameters. One of the neurodevelopmental disorders with major relation with executive function damages is the attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this paper there is a conceptual review of executive function, theoretical models, its disorders, clinical perspective of ADHD and analysis of hybrid model of executive function in the ADHD. In this paper a review of the relationship between the hybrid model of executive functions and ADHD is presented, for which it will be based on the conceptualization of executive functions, a description of the main theoretical models of this cognitive function and exposure of main alterations of executive functions in children with ADHD reported. In conclusion ADHD is a complex disorder in which the study of executive function Inhibitory Control lets understand the causality of this neurodevelopmental disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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