THEME: "Emerging Perspectives in Neurology and Brain Research"
CEO of The Counseling and Development Center out side of Atlanta, USA
Title: Understanding Executive Functioning Deficits Inherent in ADHD and ASD
Time:
Mary
Hynes Danielak, Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist. . Danielak is one of
the founders and CEO of The Counseling and Development Center outside of
Atlanta, GA. Danielak has been in clinical practice since 1994 and has
tested over 1600 children, teens, and adults. She has trained a variety of
postdoctoral fellows and best practices of assessment and interpretation of
data. Her training in assessment included the neuropsychological assessment of
executive functions for differentiating ADHD from other disorders. Her original
doctoral dissertation research constituted an N=325 for her doctorate was
published in Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 3, 40-45], “Doctoral
Dissertation: “Comparison of Paternal Factors in Families with and without
Daughters with Disturbed Eating Attitudes.” [Danielek, M., & Eme, R.,
(1995). She was a field researcher for the DSM-5 by the American Psychiatry
Association (name is on page 912) and was also involved with the APA’s Quality
Measure Development for Behavioral Health Initiative. In 2019, Danielak
collected data for developing USA norms for a product developed in Spain with
the Nesplora Corporation for the measurement of executive function in children
using the Oculus I virtual-reality headset.