and attention and concentration. This is similar to those with traumatic brain injury, diffuse white matter injury, and subcortical vascular disease (seeTable 3). Hence, frontal executive functioning testing (Delis Kaplan Executive Function Systems Test), memory testing (Repeatable Battery for the Asse...
In addition, hyperactivity and poor concentration should be present in adulthood, along with 2 of the 5 additional symptoms: affective lability; hot temper; inability to complete tasks and disorganization; stress intolerance; and impulsivity. The same medications used for children with ADHD are ...
The findings are in line with consistent evidence for higher response variability and slower reaction times in ADHD, thought to reflect poor concentration, attention lapses and poor stimulus anticipation.6, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 Only for some of the longer delays, ASD patients also showed slower...
Circadian rhythm of heart rate assessed by wearable devices tends to correlate with the circadian rhythm of salivary cortisol concentration in healthy young adults. Chronobiol Med. 2020;2(3):109-114. doi:10.33069/cim.2020.0022Google ScholarCrossref 52. Feehan LM, Geldman J, Sayre ...
Two formulas for computation of the area under the curve represent measures of total hormone concentration versus time-dependent change Psychoneuroendocrinology, 28 (7) (2003), pp. 916-931, 10.1016/S0306-4530(02)00108-7 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Qi et al., 2018 M. Qi...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe and heterogenous psychiatric disorder that was first defined as a mental disorder in 1980. Currently, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and the International Classification of Diseases 11th Edition (ICD-...
Concentration of care modeled according to Nordbaden data [74]. Abbreviation: Non-ADHD-Rx: expenditures for treatment of conditions other than ADHD. Full size image Under base case assumptions, total annual drug spending of these child and adolescent psychiatrists would grow from an average total ...
In healthy humans, they relieve feelings of tiredness and languor, elevate mood, as well as improve concentration and performance. In animals, psychostimulants increase locomotor activity and are readily self-administered due to their powerful reinforcing properties....
We measured the hemodynamic responses of 13 ADHD boys and 13 TD boys to happy and angry expressions at their bilateral temporal areas, which are sensitive to face processing. The ADHD children showed an increased concentration of oxy-Hb for happy faces but not for angry faces, while TD ...
Concentration problems and/or overactivity may be less evident when individuals are engrossed in a topic or activity of special interest. Distraction, in terms of switching tasks by moving from one incomplete activity to another, may also be influenced by the level of interest in the task and/...