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Brain alterations in children/adolescents with ADHD revisited: A neuroimaging meta-analysis of 96 structural and functional studies

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Samea, Fateme, Soluki, Solmaz, Nejati, Vahid, Zarei, Mojtaba, Cortese, Samuele, Eickhoff, Simon B., Tahmasian, Masoud, Eickhoff, Claudia R.·2019·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

DOI 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.02.011PMC PMC7966818

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The findings of neuroimaging studies in children/adolescents with ADHD, and even those of previous meta-analyses, are divergent. Here, Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis, following the current best-practice guidelines, was conducted. We searched multiple databases and traced the references up to June 2018. Then, we extracted the reported coordinates reflecting group comparison between ADHD and healthy subjects from 96 eligible studies, containing 1914 unique participants. The analysis of pooled structural and functional, sub-analyses restricted to modality, and in-/decreased contrast did not yield any significant findings. However, further sub-analyses in the task-fMRI experiments (neutral stimuli only) led to aberrant activity in the left pallidum/putamen and decreased activity (male subjects only) in the left inferior frontal gyrus. The overall findings indicate a lack of regional convergence in children/adolescents with ADHD, which might be due to heterogeneous clinical populations, various experimental design, preprocessing, statistical procedures in individual publications. Our results highlight the need for further high-powered investigations, but may also indicate ADHD pathophysiology might rest in network interactions rather than just regional abnormality.

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Authors: Samea, F., Soluki, S., Nejati, V., Zarei, M., Cortese, S., Eickhoff, S. B., Tahmasian, M., & Eickhoff, C. R.
Affiliations: Shahid Beheshti University (IR)
University of Nottingham (GB)
Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
Corresponding author: Tahmasian, Masoud
ORCID: Samea, Fateme
Nejati, Vahid
Zarei, Mojtaba
Cortese, Samuele
Eickhoff, Simon B.
Tahmasian, Masoud
Eickhoff, Claudia R.
Venue: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2019-05
Volume: 100
Pages: 1-8
ISSN: 0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.02.011
PMC: PMC7966818
OpenAlex: W2915428382
Cited by: 245
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 29 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 36 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 5
FWCI: 4.24
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
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ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich) (submittedVersion)
Funders: Shahid Beheshti University
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (EI 816/11-1)
National Institute of Mental Health (R01-MH074457)
Helmholtz Portfolio Theme "Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain"
European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research
Innovation Programme (785907)
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, children and adolescents, brain changes, structural neuroimaging, functional neuroimaging, inferior frontal gyrus, sex differences, regional convergence, network interaction, ADHD pathophysiology
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Brain, Brain Mapping, Child, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Likelihood Functions

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