title: [Executive function training in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A number of different treatments have been proposed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), yet little material has been published in the literature to improve the performance of the mechanisms behind attention, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility and working memory in these children. We think that a working model that is effective in the treatment of persons with ADHD can only be consolidated by means of a thorough understanding of the syndromes involved in this deficit.
  
  
  METHODS
  In addition to reviewing the latest and most significant proposals aimed at improving the cognitive under-standing of the disorder, this work also refers to three neurobiological syndromes that are recognised as forming part of ADHD, i.e. medial cingulate syndrome, dorsolateral syndrome and orbitofrontal syndrome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Advances in neuroscientific research and the design of computerised treatment materials offer extremely valuable data that will undoubtedly help to improve the results of psychopedagogical and neuropsychological interventions in ADHD, since they provide information about the temporal and spatial equation.
authors.affiliation: RED-CENIT, Centro de Neurodesarrollo Interdisciplinar, Valencia, Spain. lam@red-cenit.com
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Abad-Mas
authors.forename: Rosalía
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Andrés
authors.forename: Francisca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moreno-Madrid
authors.forename: M Angeles
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sirera-Conca
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cornesse
authors.forename: Iván D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Delgado-Mejía
authors.forename: Máximo C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Etchepareborda
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013577:Syndrome