Co-occurring weight problems among children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the role of executive functioning

Executive functioning among Finnish adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

OBJECTIVE The present study examined cognitive functioning in a population sample of adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986. METHOD The sample consisted of 457 adolescents ages 16 to 18 who were assessed using a battery of cognitive tasks. Performance according to diagnostic group (control, behavior disorder, an...

Executive and attention functioning among children in the PANDAS subgroup.

Evidence from past studies indicates that adults and children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS) experience subtle neuropsychological deficits. Less is known about neuropsychological functioning of children and adolescents with a symptom course consistent with the PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infection) su...

Sleep, attention, and executive functioning in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

The objective of this study was to investigate potential relationships between two measures of sleep impairments (i.e., sleep duration and sleep efficiency [SE]) and attention and executive functioning in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Parents of 43 children (mean age = 10 ± 1.8 years) with ADHD completed sleep and behavioral questionnaires. Children also wore a ...

Anatomical Correlates of Executive Functioning in Children with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder and Developmental Dyslexia

Differences in Executive Functioning in Children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

In recent years, the interest in Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its relation to deficits in working memory (WM) and more specifically the different executive functions (EFs) has grown, to the point of confirming that these are quite frequent in this disorder. The aim of this study was precisely to explore differences in executive functioning of WM in fourth grade Primar...