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Background:  Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent and commonly studied forms of psychopathology in children and adolescents. Causal models of ADHD have long implicated dysfunction in fronto‐striatal and frontal‐parietal networks supporting executive function, a hypothesis that can now be examined systematically using functional neuroimaging. The present work provides an objective, unbiased statistically‐based meta‐analysis of published functional neuroimaging studies of ADHD.

Methods:  A recently developed voxel‐wise quantitative meta‐analytic technique known as activation likelihood estimation (ALE) was applied to 16 neuroimaging studies examining and contrasting patterns of neural activity in patients with ADHD and healthy controls. Voxel‐wise results are reported using a statistical threshold of p < .05, corrected. Given the large number of studies …