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The dual pathway model of AD/HD: an elaboration of neuro-developmental characteristics
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The currently dominant neuro-cognitive model of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) presents the condition as executive dysfunction (EDF) underpinned by disturbances in the fronto-dorsal striatal circuit and associated dopaminergic branches (e.g. meso-cortical). In contrast, motivationally-based accounts focus on altered reward processes and implicate fronto-ventral striatal reward circuits and those meso-limbic branches that terminate in the ventral striatum especially the nucleus accumbens. One such account, delay aversion (DEL), presents AD/HD as a motivational style-characterised by attempts to escape or avoid delay-arising from fundamental disturbances in these reward centres. While traditionally regarded as competing, EDF and DEL models have recently been presented as complimentary accounts of two psycho-patho-physiological subtypes of AD/HD with different developmental pathways, underpinned by different cortico-striatal circuits and modulated by different branches of the dopamine system. In the current paper we describe the development of this model in more detail. We elaborate on the neuro-circuitry possibly underpinning these two pathways and explore their developmental significance within a neuro-ecological framework.
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- Authors
- Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J.S
- Venue
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-11
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 593-604
- ISSN
- 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
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- W2064260924
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, executive dysfunction, delay aversion, reward processing, dopaminergic system, mesocortical pathway, mesolimbic system, nucleus accumbens, ventral striatum, motivational styles
- MeSH terms
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Cognition Disorders, Humans, Mental Processes, Models, Neurological, Models, Psychological, Neural Pathways, Reinforcement, Psychology
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