I thought the Brown article about the multiple characteristics and symptoms of ADHD was great - I feel like often people think of ADD as being something characterized only by hyperactivity and high distractability, but there are obviously other facets which the article explained well.  It would have been nice if the article had gone a bit more into the biological basis of ADHD, however.  It's characterization of executive functions was also highly useful to me, as I had not previously fully grasped what this suite of operations was when we talked about it during the memory section (I think that was what we talked about... I may well be wrong.)

I also thought the article about the recent prevalence of hyper attention as opposed to deep attention was interesting, especially the part about how human brains are very plastic in their development.  It's kind of disturbing to think about how media has shaped the new generation of children in western nations - possibly for the worse (as many seem to think), although the article describes the change as something that is only different from the norm rather than objectively worse.  It's hard to tell, but we may find out in the future when the generations of developing nations who grew up without media begin to compete with our own media-raised children.  Such observations in the future may lead to a new set of parental guidelines.  (although the article did caution against using neurobiological findings to shape educational strategies, this is different in that it would be relying upon behavioural observations.)