The clinical utility of the continuous performance test and objective measures of activity for diagnosing and monitoring ADHD in children: A systematic review

CL Hall, AZ Valentine, MJ Groom, GM Walker… - European child & …, 2016 - Springer
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is typically diagnosed using clinical
observation and subjective informant reports. Once children commence ADHD medication …

The influences of environmental enrichment, cognitive enhancement, and physical exercise on brain development: can we alter the developmental trajectory of ADHD …

JM Halperin, DM Healey - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterized by a pervasive pattern of
developmentally inappropriate inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive behaviors that typically …

Learning disabilities and ADHD: Overlapping spectrum disorders

SD Mayes, SL Calhoun… - Journal of learning …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Clinical and psychoeducational data were analyzed for 119 children ages 8 to 16 years who
were evaluated in a child diagnostic clinic. A learning disability (LD) was present in 70% of …

Learning, attention, writing, and processing speed in typical children and children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and oppositional-defiant disorder

SD Mayes, SL Calhoun - Child Neuropsychology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Learning, attention, graphomotor, and processing speed scores were analyzed in 149
typical control children and 886 clinical children with normal intelligence. Nonsignificant …

Revisiting the role of the prefrontal cortex in the pathophysiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

JM Halperin, KP Schulz - Psychological bulletin, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
Most neural models for the pathophysiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) have centered on the prefrontal cortex and its interconnections with the striatum and …

Frequency of reading, math, and writing disabilities in children with clinical disorders

SD Mayes, SL Calhoun - Learning and individual Differences, 2006 - Elsevier
Learning disabilities (LD) are common in clinical disorders, but no study has compared the
relative prevalence in referred children with different diagnoses. Our sample comprised 949 …

Behavioral genetics and child temperament

KJ Saudino - Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Most temperament theories presume a biological basis to those behavioral tendencies
thought to be temperamental in origin. Behavioral genetic methods can be used to test this …

Information processing and energetic factors in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

JA Sergeant, J Oosterlaan, J van der Meere - Handbook of disruptive …, 1999 - Springer
Currently, children and adolescents with an excess of hyperactive, inattentive, and impulsive
behavior are diagnosed as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD; see the …

Processing speed in children with clinical disorders

SL Calhoun, SD Mayes - Psychology in the Schools, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Processing Speed Index (PSI) was first introduced on the Wechsler Intelligence
Scale, Third Edition (WISC‐III; D. Wechsler, 1991), and little is known about its clinical …

Do tasks make a difference? Accounting for heterogeneity of performance of children with reading difficulties on tasks of executive function: Findings from a meta …

JN Booth, JME Boyle, SW Kelly - British Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Research studies have implicated executive functions in reading difficulties (RD). But while
some studies have found children with RD to be impaired on tasks of executive function …