Error patterns on the Continuous Performance Test in non-medicated and medicated samples of children with and without ADHD: a mata-analytic review
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Children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) make more errors of commission and omission on the Continuos Performance Test, as compared to normal children. Treatment with methylphenidate reduces the rate of both types of errors. Methylphenidate improves sensitivity to target probability, stimulus duration and number of trials. Non-targets and targets were treated less differently by children with ADHD, as compared to normal children. Both groups of children have similar response biases. Methylphenidate fails to affect the response bias in both groups.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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Tracking procedures and attrition containment in a long-term follow-up of a community-based ADHD sample
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Staff persistence is an important factor that prevents attrition of subjects with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during long-term follow-up. Longer contact intervals constitute a major feature of follow-up with socially and behaviorally disordered samples. A follow-up study with an ADHD sample after 28 months yields response from 81% of the subjects who are representative of the original sample. Difficulties in locating subjects, unavailability, refusal and mental incompetency are factors involved in promoting attrition.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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Effortful and automatic information processing boys with ADHD and specific learning disorders
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The effortful/automatic hypothesis for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was tested using the Treisman paradigm. The conclusions suggest that ADHD subjects have a deficit with regard to visual attentional processing, although cannot be described as having a deficit in mental effort with regard to IQ. Mental effort is not therefore useful in understanding the deficits of children with ADHD.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1999
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