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Comorbid anxiety and neurocognitive dysfunctions in children with ADHD

Overview of attention for article published in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 2012
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Title
Comorbid anxiety and neurocognitive dysfunctions in children with ADHD
Published in
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 2012
DOI 10.1007/s00787-012-0339-9
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J. Monique Bloemsma, Frits Boer, Renée Arnold, Tobias Banaschewski, Stephen V. Faraone, Jan K. Buitelaar, Joseph A. Sergeant, Nanda Rommelse, Jaap Oosterlaan

Abstract

Previous research established that children with ADHD and comorbid anxiety have a later age of ADHD onset, show less off-task and hyperactive behavior, and have more school problems than children with ADHD alone. Comorbid anxiety appears to ameliorate behavioral inhibition deficits, worsen working memory problems, and lengthen reaction times in ADHD. This study investigated the effect of comorbid anxiety on a broad range of neurocognitive functions and includes child-, parent- and teacher reports of anxiety. The sample consisted of 509 children in the age range 5-19 years, including 238 children with a diagnosis of ADHD combined subtype and 271 normal control children. Children were tested on a broad battery of neurocognitive tasks that proved highly sensitive to ADHD in previous work. Linear Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to estimate the effect of comorbid anxiety on the neurocognitive functions. Child reported anxiety was associated with slower motor speed and response speed and better behavioral inhibition. Teacher reported anxiety was related to worse time production. Parent reported anxiety was not significantly associated with any of the neurocognitive functions. Compared to parent and teacher reports of anxiety, child reported comorbid anxiety shows foremost the largest associations with the neurocognitive dysfunctions observed in children with ADHD. This stresses the importance of including child self-reported anxiety assessments in clinical and research practice.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 185 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 18%
Student > Bachelor 23 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 11%
Researcher 15 8%
Other 26 14%
Unknown 36 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 88 47%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 8%
Neuroscience 11 6%
Social Sciences 10 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 3%
Other 16 8%
Unknown 44 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 October 2012.
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#16,237,186
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#1,296
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