Cognitive impairment and Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Theoretical study

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For many years investigators have worked toward achieving a better understanding of Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) These efforts have led to a specification of ADHD cognitive problems as they realized that the disorder is not only a problem in the attention to what the speaker says, but is a developmental impairment of complex cognitive functions in the human brain that affects important mental functions.
Using descriptive approach, this paper aims to, present an overview of cognitive problems associated with ADHD and the most important theoretical perspectives that explain the causes of these problems, and to achieve that the researcher had worked on the review of some literature and recent studies that handled this subject from different angles.

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