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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms moderate cognition and behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders
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Recent estimates suggest that 31% of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) meet diagnostic criteria for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and another 24% of children with ASD exhibit subthreshold clinical ADHD symptoms. Presence of ADHD symptoms in the context of ASD could have a variety of effects on cognition, autistic traits, and adaptive/maladaptive behaviors including: exacerbating core ASD impairments; adding unique impairments specific to ADHD; producing new problems unreported in ASD or ADHD; having no clear impact; or producing some combination of these scenarios. Children with ASD and co‐morbid ADHD symptoms (ASD+ADHD; n =21), children with ASD without ADHD (ASD; n =28), and a typically developing control group ( n =21) were included in the study; all groups were matched on age, gender‐ratio, IQ, and socioeconomic status. Data were collected on verbal and spatial working memory, response inhibition, global executive control (EC), autistic traits, adaptive functioning, and maladaptive behavior problems. In this sample, the presence of ADHD symptoms in ASD exacerbated impairments in EC and adaptive behavior and resulted in higher autistic trait, and externalizing behavior ratings. ADHD symptoms were also associated with greater impairments on a lab measure of verbal working memory. These findings suggest that children with ASD+ADHD symptoms present with exacerbated impairments in some but not all domains of functioning relative to children with ASD, most notably in adaptive behavior and working memory. Therefore, ADHD may moderate the expression of components of the ASD cognitive and behavioral phenotype, but ASD+ADHD may not represent an etiologically distinct phenotype from ASD alone.
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“Impairments on tests intended to measure working memory remain notable among youth with ASD when controlling for symptoms of ADHD65 and among individuals without co-occurring ADHD.66 67”
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“Similarly, children with ASD continue to show poor inhibitory control test performance after controlling for ADHD symptoms.65”
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“When ADHD symptoms are controlled for among ASD samples, effect sizes remain medium for verbal (d=0.53) and spatial tests (d=0.50).42,65”
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“children with ASD continue to show impaired performance on tests intended to measure set shifting compared to neurotypical individuals after controlling for co-occurring ADHD symptoms, with a medium effect size (d=0.61) across tasks.65”
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“relates to worse adaptive function (Yerys et al., 2009)”
From Data‐driven identification of subtypes of executive function across typical development, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorders (2020) · cites this paper as Yerys et al., 2009
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“There is evidence that ADHD in ASD is associated with differences in autism symptomatology, executive functioning (Sinzig, Morsch, Bruning, Schmidt, & Lehmkuhl, 2008), and adaptive behaviors (Yerys et al., 2009)”
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“and profiles of executive impairment may differ between ASD individuals with and without ADHD (Sinzig, Morsch, Bruning, Schmidt, & Lehmkuhl, 2008; Yerys et al., 2009).”
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“Similarly, in autism, group differences on EF measures (compared to non-ASD mental age-matched controls) do not imply that all individuals with ASD have EF problems, particularly when considering the milder variants of the condition”
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“Significant relationships between self-reported EF deficits and a variety of constructs that are associated with deficient implementation of EF in daily life have been reported, including academic procrastination (e.g., deficits in planning, organization, and initiation; Rabin et al. 2011), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD; known to encompass multiple EF deficits, e.g., deficits in”
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“For example, difficulties in shifting are not usually found in the ASD+ADHD group, compared to the pure ASD group, on laboratory tasks, but they have been identified using parent reports (Yerys et al., 2009).”
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“Inhibitory problems seem to be shared by the group with ASD+ADHD and the group with ADHD (Bühler et al., 2011;Chantiluke et al., 2014;Sinzig et al., 2008b;Tye et al., 2014), although sometimes no inhibitory deficits have been found in the comorbid group (Sinzig et al., 2008a;Van der Meer et al., 2012;Yerys et al., 2009).”
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“Similar results were obtained by Yerys et al. (2009) when comparing the EF in children with TD, ASD, and ASD+ADHD, using the parent version of the BRIEF.”
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“This is in accordance with the results of Yerys et al. [49] finding high levels of ADHD-like symptoms in children with HFA to be associated with impairment in verbal working memory.”
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“Yerys et al. [115] found greater overall cognitive impairments, including poor overall global executive control, cognitive flexibility, and verbal working memory, in children with ASD who also had hyperactivity.”
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Neuropsychologie et remédiations des troubles du spectre de l’autisme
Bizet, É., & de la Rosa, S. M. (2018) · De Boeck Supérieur eBooks · doi:10.3917/dbu.breti.2018.01.0063
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Self-Understanding of Academic Competencies in ASD
Furlano, R. (2021) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91280-6_102471
Clinical markers of hyperactivity in patients with autism spectrum disorder
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“Children with comorbid ASD/ADHD often have more severely impaired short-term verbal memory, poorer control of executive functions, marked autistic traits and difficulties with adaptive functioning (Yerys et al. 2009).”
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“This result is consistent with the available studies in literature, which stipulate that 30% to 80% of ASD patients also suffer from ADHD (5-8).”
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Autism, Comorbidities, and Adaptive Functioning: A Potential Moderator
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“For example, relative to their peers without autism or ADHD, the AUT and AUT + ADHD groups scored lower in cognitive flexibility (DCCS), a pattern that aligns with previous findings (Ozonoff et al., 2004; Yerys et al., 2009).”
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Resting-State fNIRS Functional Connectivity Distinguishes Comorbid ASD and ADHD from Pure ASD
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“Prior work [23] has shown that children with ASD+ADHD display more pronounced impairments in adaptive behavior and working memory compared to those with pure ASD.”
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Interventions for Adolescent Students With Autism and Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders
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“…is still evolving, with brain research suggesting that their co-occurrence (sometimes informally referred to as AuDHD, a combination of “Autism” and “ADHD”) may be a distinct disorder with more significant impairments than either diagnosis alone (Chantiluke et al., 2014; Yerys et al., 2009).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yerys, B. E., Wallace, G. L., Sokoloff, J. L., Shook, D. A., James, J. D., & Kenworthy, L.
- Affiliations
- Children's National (US)
- National Institute of Mental Health (US)
- Georgetown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yerys, Benjamin E.
- Venue
- Autism Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-12
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 322-333
- ISSN
- 1939-3792 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-3806
- PMC
- PMC3012375
- OpenAlex
- W2023794469
- Cited by
- 299
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 30 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 21
- FWCI
- 5.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Autism Research (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (U54MH066417)
- National Center for Research Resources (M01RR013297)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD046388, U54HD061221, P30HD040677)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Keywords
- autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, comorbidities, executive function, working memory, response inhibition, adaptive behavior, maladaptive behavior, autistic traits, externalizing problems, children
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Autistic Disorder, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Cognition Disorders, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Neuropsychological Tests, Personality Assessment, Psychometrics, Social Adjustment, Comorbidity, Asperger Syndrome, Executive Function
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