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Impairment of Executive Functions in Boys with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Fuggetta, Giorgio P.·2006·Child Neuropsychology
DOI 10.1080/09297040500203418
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The main aim of the present study is to compare the efficiency of executive control processes in 24 boys with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 58 normal controls of similar age (between 8 and 11 years). Three reaction time (RT) paradigms were utilized: a dual task that requires coordination of two tasks responses, a shift task that makes it necessary to disengage attention from one task and engage into another one, and a stimulus-response spatial compatibility task that requires participants to inhibit a prepotent response. Another purpose of the study is to examine whether Barkley’s (1997) Barkley, R. A. 1997. “ADHD and the nature of self-control”. New York: Guilford Press. [Google Scholar] executive dysfunction or Sergeant et al.’s (1999) Sergeant, J. A., Oosterlaan, J. and van der Meere, J. J. 1999. “Information processing and energetic factors in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder”. In Handbook of Disruptive Behavior Disorders, Edited by: Quay, H. C. and Hogan, A. 75–104. New York: Plenum Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] resource allocation/arousal model best account for the behavioral deficits associated with ADHD. Examination of raw RT data showed significantly poorer performance in ADHD children with respect to age-matched controls on both the higher-level cognitive functions of executive control and on lower-level abilities (e.g., speed of processing) of all tasks of this study. However, using proportional transformations of raw RT data, we could demonstrate that, in addition to differences in processing speed, also executive control processes were significantly impaired in children with ADHD.

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  • Individual associations between PS and each DSM-V disorder and related dimensional measures implicated PS impairments in ADHD, ASD, and SLD, consistent with prior work.

    “Consistent with prior work, our examination of individual associations between PS and each, DSM-V disorders and their related dimensional measures, implicated PS impairments in attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD)8,9,14,25,82,83, autism spectrum (ASD)2,8,9,29,45,47 and specific learning disabilities (SLD)9,10,13,15,16,37.”

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Authors
Fuggetta, G. P.
Affiliations
University of Verona (IT)
Corresponding author
Fuggetta, Giorgio P.
ORCID
Fuggetta, Giorgio P.
Venue
Child Neuropsychology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2006-02
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
1-21
ISSN
  • 0929-7049 (ISSN-L)
  • 1744-4136
DOI
10.1080/09297040500203418
OpenAlex
W2126569988
Cited by
66
References
52
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
FWCI
4.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Child Neuropsychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
Keywords
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, executive function, boys, reaction time, dual-task performance, attentional shift, spatial compatibility, response inhibition, processing speed, resource allocation model, self-control, children
MeSH terms
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Child, Cognition Disorders, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Reaction Time, Prevalence, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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