Identifying Brain Differences In People With ADHDIRA FLATOW
No overall difference was found between ADHD and controls in total brain volume or total gray and white matter volumes. However, differences emerged when the researchers looked at specific regions within the brain. Alterations in the shape of three brain regions (left temporal lobe, bilateral cuneus...
Although ADHD research looking at sex differences has focused largely on functional comparisons, research evaluating brain structure of boys and girls with ADHD has been lacking, with onlyone other studylooking at differences in frontal lobe morphology. For this study, Dr Mostofsky and colleagues use...
In a new study conducted at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, researchers found structural differences in the brains of children with ADHD. The children in the study were between ages 4 years and 0 months, to 5 years and 11 months and they did not have any other psychiatric disorder, ...
ADHD and OCD patients have disorder-specific structural brain differences that not only validate current therapies but also may point to novel treatments for these disorders.
a human, and it involves something called cognitive flexibility—the ability to smoothly switch between mental processes. UNC scientists conducted a study to image the neural activity analogues to cognitive flexibility and discover differences in the brain activity of children with ADHD and those ...
ADHD doesn’t mean your child isn’t as smart as kids who don’t have it. But it might affect the way they perform or act in school, and other important areas of life. Experts have found differences in the brains of people with and without the condition. These might change as a chil...
ADHD symptoms. Additionally, these caudate volumes were significantly correlated with parent ratings of hyperactive/impulsive symptoms. Cortical volumes, however, were not associated with symptom severity. Researchers concluded that differences in basal ganglia development, particularly the caudate nucleus, ...
ADHD’s effects on the brain are very real. How does ADHD affect the brain? There are both developmental and structural differences in the brain in both kids and adults with ADHD. The result of these differences does not reduce a person’s intelligence, but it can make daily activities invo...
Finally, from the developmental perspective, there was delayed maturation of brain networks in the ADHD group, especially in the DMN. Overall, we presented the differences in brain networks between the ADHD and TD group from multiple perspectives and demonstrated the developmental abnormality of brain...