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Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - August 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Correction to: Does executive function capacity moderate the outcome of executive function training in children with ADHD?
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Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - June 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Does executive function capacity moderate the outcome of executive function training in children with ADHD?
AbstractExecutive functioning (EF) training interventions aimed at ADHD-symptom reduction have limited results. However, EF training might only be effective for children with relatively poor EF capacity. This randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study examined whether pre-training EF capacity moderates the outcome of an EF-training intervention on measures of near transfer (EF performance) and far transfer (ADHD symptoms and parent-rated EF behavior) immediately after treatment and at 3-month follow-up. Sixty-one children with ADHD (aged 8 –12) were randomized either to anEF-training condition where working memory,...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - May 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Is increased sensitivity to punishment a common characteristic of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder? An experimental study of response allocation in Japanese children
This study evaluated the effects of punishment on response allocation in Japanese children with and without ADHD. Thirty-four children meeting DSM-IV criteria for ADHD and 59 typically developing control-group children completed an operant task in which they choose between playing two simultaneously available games. Reward was arranged symmetrically across the games under concurrent variable interval schedules. Asymmetric punishment schedules were superimposed with responses on one game punished four times as often as responses on the other. Children with ADHD showed greater behavioral sensitivity to punishment than contro...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - May 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The effects of childhood inattention and anxiety on executive functioning: inhibition, updating, and shifting
AbstractAlthough anxiety and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are highly comorbid, research has generally examined the executive functioning (EF) deficits associated with each of these symptoms independently. The purpose of this study was to examine the unique and interactive effects of anxiety and ADHD symptoms (first respectively, then collectively) on multiple dimensions of EF (i.e., inhibition, updating, and shifting, respectively). A sample of 142 youth from the community (age range 8 –17 years;Mage = 11.87 ± 2.94 years) completed the Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System and di...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - May 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

In memoriam: John Fayyad (1961 –2018)
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Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - May 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Relationships of Internet addiction and Internet gaming disorder symptom severities with probable attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, aggression and negative affect among university students
AbstractThe aim of the present study was to evaluate relationships of Internet addiction (IA) and Internet gaming disorder (IGD) symptom severities with probable attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and aggression among university students, while controlling the effects of anxiety and depressive symptoms. The study was conducted with online survey among 1509 volunteered university students in Ankara who regularly use the Internet, among whom we conducted analyses related with IA. Among these students, 987 of them, who play video games, were included in the analyses related with IGD. Correlation analyses revealed...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - May 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Utility of a novel simulator paradigm in the assessment of driving ability in individuals with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
This study aimed to evaluate the utility of a novel, more cost-effective driving simulator, Assetto Corsa (AC), in detecting differences in driving performance between individuals with and without ADHD. Driving simulators are a useful means of assessing driving performance in those with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, they are frequently expensive and thus unavailable to many researchers. A total of 87 participants (16 with ADHD, 71 without) completed an AC driving simulator task. They also completed computerized measures of attention and executive functioning and a questionnaire assessing self-re...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - April 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

7th World Congress on ADHD: From Child to Adult Disorder
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Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - March 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Interoceptive awareness in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
AbstractAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder normally diagnosed in childhood and persisting into adulthood in up to two-thirds of the patients. Its core symptoms comprise inattention and hyperactive –impulsive behaviours. Several studies suggest that patients with ADHD show alterations in self-regulation and self-monitoring. So far, it has not been described whether these deficits also affect the awareness of one’s own bodily signals, that is, interoceptive awareness. To investigate possibl e alterations in interoceptive awareness, 14 adult patients with ADHD and 16 healthy con...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - March 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The interplay of delay aversion, timing skills, and impulsivity in children experiencing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms
AbstractImpulsive behaviours occurring as a central deficit in connection with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are associated with social and academic impairment in children. Whereas impulsivity was shown to be related to both delay aversion and deficient timing skills, the mutual relation between the latter two has hardly been investigated. The present study therefore examined the interplay of delay aversion, timing skills, and impulsivity in a sample of eighty-eight children aged between seven and fourteen, twenty-one of them diagnosed with ADHD. Children participated in a delay aversion and a tapping tas...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - March 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Stigma and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: negative perceptions and anger emotional reactions mediate the link between active symptoms and social distance
This study aimed to understand the contributions of active ADHD symptoms and the diagnostic label of ADHD in yielding negative attitudes and social distance ratings. Using Amazon ’s Mechanical Turk (n = 305), respondents were assigned to read a vignette about: (a) a typically developing child, (b) a child with active ADHD symptoms and (c) a child with active ADHD symptoms + diagnostic label. Participants were then asked to answer questions about their beliefs and feelings about the child in the vignette. The active ADHD symptom condition predicted higher levels of social distance, and this link was mediated by ne...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - March 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Comparisons between sluggish cognitive tempo and ADHD-restrictive inattentive presentation phenotypes in a clinical ADHD sample
In this study, 214 patients aged 8 –15 years from an ADHD outpatient clinic were assessed, and 100 typically developing controls (TD) were recruited as comparisons. No psychiatric comorbidities except for oppositional defiant disorder were allowed. We compared 29 cases with ADHD + SCT with 34 ADHD-RI cases and 92 TD subjects o n sociodemographic profiles, CBCL subscales scores and neurocognitive findings. Regarding sociodemographic profiles (age, gender and parental education) and CBCL subscales, ADHD + SCT and ADHD-RI cases did not differ in any score (allp >  0.05). Comparing with SCT cases, ADHD-RI cas...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - March 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of a sluggish cognitive tempo scale in Japanese adults with and without ADHD
This study examined the psychometric properties, convergent validity, and divergent validity of a Japanese translation of Barkley (The Barkley adult ADHD rating scale –IV, Guilford Press, New York,2011) rating scale for assessing sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) in adults. In total, 429 Japanese adults participated across three samples: 26 diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; ages 19 –50), 81 adults without ADHD (ages 22–65), and 322 university students (ages 18–27). All participants completed rating scales of SCT, ADHD, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. A subset of participants completed th...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - March 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Temperamental negative affect, emotion-specific regulation, and concurrent internalizing and externalizing pathology among children with ADHD
AbstractChildren with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience high rates of temperamental negative affect and comorbid internalizing and externalizing pathology. The current study explored the role of emotion-specific regulation in accounting for the link between temperamental negative affect and psychopathology among children with ADHD. Forty parents of children ages 8 –11 (N  =29 males, N  =11 females) completed measures of child temperament, emotion-specific dysregulation (i.e., anger dysregulation, sadness dysregulation), and psychopathology. Children completed a measure of emotion-specific dys...
Source: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders - March 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research