Vedant A. Desai, M.A., M.S.

Doctoral candidate in school psychology. Researching ADHD, cognitive functions, and broad assessment implications. I integrate cognition, development, multi-systems, and neurobiology into educational research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research focuses on the intersection of neurodevelopmental disorders and neurocognitive assessment, particularly higher-order cognitive processes in temporal memory, recall, and extrapolative processing. I aim to broadly identify temporal perception in relation to chronobiology disorders. My current work emphasizes ADHD within the integrative information-processing and neurocognitive/neuropsychological lens, especially through executive functions models. I seek to reconceptualize ADHD pathology through an integrative framework spanning developmental clinical science and school psychology, promoting a unified recognition of ADHD across adolescence and adulthood. By leveraging neurocognitive and psychometric theory, I refine methods for identifying broad diagnostic precision by studying the existence of a disorder. This work contributes to theoretical models of broader human cognition and applied practices that support diagnostic and conceptual precision to improve interventions, systems changes, approaches, and amendments.