Michael Bogrov, MD is Medical Director of Sheppard Pratt's Towson Center for Counseling and Therapy and Service Chief of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital's Inpatient Child Unit. He is an assistant professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University and served as Director of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Clinic.
Some people are a little confused by that.
Though the name of the problem has changed over the years, but it's really all the same problem. Currently, the feeling is that attention and the other continuum, hyperactivity and impulsiveness, co-occur. Not Otherwise Specified. The short answer is it is a brain based problem which is referred to as an executive control problem. It's a processing problem.