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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterised as “a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 59). Some examples of these characteristics can include “fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, at work, or during other activities”, “difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities”, “fidgets with or taps hands or feet or squirms in seat”, and “difficulty waiting his or her turn” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 59). 

Source: American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Linking ADHD to the neural circuitry of attention (2017)
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Spontaneous activity in the waiting brain: A marker of impulsive choice in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? (2015)
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Altered salience processing in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2015)
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Electroencephalography correlates of spatial working memory deficits in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Vigilance, encoding, and maintenance (2014)
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A review of fronto-striatal and fronto-cortical brain abnormalities in children and adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and new evidence for dysfunction in adults with ADHD during motivation and attention (2012)
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Inhibitory control of memory retrieval and motor processing associated with the right lateral prefrontal cortex: Evidence from deficits in individuals with ADHD (2010)
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Altered evoked gamma-band responses reveal impaired early visual processing in ADHD children (2010)
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The neural basis of sustained and transient attentional control in young adults with ADHD (2009)
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for abnormalities in response selection in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Differences in activation associated with response inhibition but not habitual motor response (2008)
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Ventral striatal hyperconnectivity during rewarded interference control in adolescents with ADHD (2016)  
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Feedback associated with expectation for larger-reward improves visuospatial working memory performances in children with ADHD (2015) 
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Hemodynamic response of children with attention-deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) to emotional facial expressions (2014)
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Ventral-striatal responsiveness during reward anticipation in ADHD and its relation to trait impulsivity in the healthy population: A meta-analytic review of the fMRI literature (2014) 
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Impaired reward processing by anterior cingulate cortex in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2014) 
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Identifying the neurobiology of altered reinforcement sensitivity in ADHD: A review and research agenda (2010) 
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Social cognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)(2010) 
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Electrophysiological correlates of semantic processing during encoding of neutral and emotional pictures in patients with ADHD (2009)
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Electrophysiological evidence of atypical motivation and reward processing in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (2008) 
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Real-time fMRI neurofeedback in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2017)
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An event-related potential investigation of the acute effects of aerobic and coordinative exercise on inhibitory control in children with ADHD (2017)
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Neurofeedback in ADHD and insomnia: Vigilance stabilization through sleep spindles and circadian networks (2014)
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The influences of environmental enrichment, cognitive enhancement, and physical exercise on brain development: Can we alter the developmental trajectory of ADHD? (2011)
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Training-induced neuroanatomical plasticity in ADHD: A tensor-based morphometric study (2011)
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Enhanced neural activity in frontal and cerebellar circuits after cognitive training in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2010)
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Double-dissociation between the mechanism leading to impulsivity and inattention in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A resting-state functional connectivity study (2017)
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An evidenced-based perspective on the validity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the context of high intelligence (2016)
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Unique white matter microstructural patterns in ADHD presentations—a diffusion tensor imaging study (2016)
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Characterizing heterogeneity in children with and without ADHD based on reward system connectivity (2015) 
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The executive control network and symptomatic improvement in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2015)
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Grey matter volume differences associated with gender in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A voxel-based morphometry study (2015)
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Impaired reward processing in the human prefrontal cortex distinguishes between persistent and remittent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2015) 
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder without comorbidity is associated with distinct atypical patterns of cerebral microstructural development (2014)
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Network connectivity abnormality profile supports a categorical-dimensional hybrid model of ADHD (2014)
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Size and synchronization of auditory cortex promotes musical, literacy, and Attentional skills in children (2014)
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Lag in maturation of the brain's intrinsic functional architecture in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2014)
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Functional connectivity of substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area: Maturation during adolescence and effects of ADHD (2014)
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation (2007)
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What can cortical development in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder teach us about the early developmental mechanisms involved? (2017)
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Frontal alpha asymmetry predicts inhibitory processing in youth with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2017)
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Network-level assessment of reward-related activation in patients with ADHD and healthy individuals (2017)
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of tract-based spatial statistics studies regarding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2016)
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Cortical morphometry in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Contribution of thickness and surface area to volume (2016)
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Non-negative matrix factorization of multimodal MRI, fMRI and phenotypic data reveals differential changes in default mode subnetworks in ADHD (2014)
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Pattern classification of response inhibition in ADHD: Toward the development of neurobiological markers for ADHD (2014)
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Brainstem abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder support high accuracy individual diagnostic classification (2014)
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Modality-spanning deficits in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder in functional networks, Gray matter, And white matter (2014)
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Disrupted network architecture of the resting brain in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2014)
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White matter tract integrity of frontostriatal circuit in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Association with attention performance and symptoms (2014)
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Probabilistic diffusion tractography and graph theory analysis reveal abnormal white matter structural connectivity networks in drug-naive boys with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2013)
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Habenula and ADHD: Convergence on time (2013)
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Topography of sleep slow wave activity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2013)
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Large-scale brain systems in ADHD: Beyond the prefrontal-striatal model (2012)
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Decreased frontostriatal microstructural organization in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2012)
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Meta-analysis of fMRI studies of timing in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (2012)
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Diffusion tensor imaging in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2012)
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Sleep-dependent memory consolidation - What can be learnt from children? (2012)
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Is the ADHD brain wired differently? A review on structural and functional connectivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2010)
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White-matter abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A diffusion tensor imaging study (2009)
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Altered small-world brain functional networks in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2009)
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Abnormal cerebral cortex structure in children with ADHD (2009)
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Fisher discriminative analysis of resting-state brain function for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2008)
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Functional connectivity of frontal cortex in healthy and adhd children reflected in EEG coherence (2007)
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