ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2013
Increased intrasubject variability in boys with ADHD across tests of motor and cognitive control.
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- Intra-Subject Variability in Mathematical Learning Difficulties.Journal of cognition · 2022Article
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- Distinct Patterns of Impaired Cognitive Control Among Boys and Girls with ADHD Across Development.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
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- Intraindividual Variability Measurement of Fine Manual Motor Skills in Children Using an Electronic Pegboard: Cohort Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- Response control correlates of anomalous basal ganglia morphology in boys, but not girls, with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Behavioural brain research · 2019Article
- Greater delay discounting among girls, but not boys, with ADHD correlates with cognitive control.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2018Article
- Response Inhibition Deficits and Altered Motor Network Connectivity in the Chronic Phase of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of neurotrauma · 2017Article
- Investigating the Impact of Cognitive Load and Motivation on Response Control in Relation to Delay Discounting in Children with ADHD.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Article
- Reproducibility of frequency-dependent low frequency fluctuations in reaction time over time and across tasks.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
Increased intrasubject variability (ISV), or short-term, within-person fluctuations in behavioral performance is consistently found in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is also associated with impairments in motor control, particularly in boys. The results of the few studies that have examined variability in self-generated motor output in children with ADHD have been inconsistent. The current study examined variability in motor control during a finger sequencing task among boys with and without ADHD as well as the relationship between intrasubject variability during motor and cognitive control tasks. Changes in performance over the course of the task and associations with ADHD symptom domains were also examined to elucidate the nature of impaired motor control in children with ADHD. Fifty-one boys (ages 8 to 12 years) participated in the study, including 28 boys with ADHD and 23 typically developing (TD) boys. Participants completed a finger sequencing task and a Go/No-Go task providing multiple measures of response speed and variability. Boys with ADHD were slower and more variable in both intertap interval on the finger sequencing task and reaction time on the Go/No-Go task, with measures of speed and variability correlated across the two tasks. For the entire cohort, the only unique predictor of parent ratings of hyperactive-impulsive symptoms was variability in intertap interval during finger sequencing, whereas inattentive symptoms were only predicted by reaction time variability on the Go/No-Go task. These findings suggest that inefficient motor control is implicated in the pathophysiology of ADHD, particularly in regards to developmentally inappropriate levels of hyperactivity and impulsivity.
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