Trial reportNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2015
Neuroimaging-Aided Prediction of the Effect of Methylphenidate in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cortical Region Reporting Patterns in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review of fNIRS Studies.Biosensors · 2026Pooled it
- Methylphenidate for children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Clinical response to a single-dose methylphenidate challenge is indicative of treatment response at two months in adults with ADHD.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Entropy difference-based EEG channel selection technique for automated detection of ADHD.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in pediatric clinical research: Different pathophysiologies and promising clinical applications.Neurophotonics · 2023Article
- Near-infrared spectroscopy in child and adolescent neurodevelopmental disorders.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2022Review
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in developmental psychiatry: a review of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Review
- Effects of Tongue Pressure on Cerebral Blood Volume Dynamics: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- What Has Been Learned from Using EEG Methods in Research of ADHD?Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Article
- Patterns of Response to Methylphenidate Administration in Children with ADHD: A Personalized Medicine Approach through Clustering Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Influence of Atomoxetine on Relationship Between ADHD Symptoms and Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Task Execution in Adult Patients.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25 Gene Polymorphisms Affect Treatment Efficiency of Methylphenidate in Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: An fNIRS Study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Use of Virtual Reality Working Memory Task and Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Assess Brain Hemodynamic Responses to Methylphenidate in ADHD Children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Growing out of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Insights from the 'remitted' brain.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2018Review
- Fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) rs9939609 polymorphism modifies the relationship between body mass index and affective symptoms through the life course: a prospective birth cohort study.Translational psychiatry · 2018Article
- Application of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to the Study of Brain Function in Humans and Animal Models.Molecules and cells · 2017Review
- Differential therapeutic effects of atomoxetine and methylphenidate in childhood attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2017Article
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- Erratum issued
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16 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Although methylphenidate hydrochloride (MPH) is a first-line treatment for children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the non-response rate is 30%. Our aim was to develop a supplementary neuroimaging biomarker for predicting the clinical effect of continuous MPH administration by using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). After baseline assessment, we performed a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial with a single dose of MPH, followed by a prospective 4-to-8-week open trial with continuous MPH administration, and an ancillary 1-year follow-up. Twenty-two drug-naïve and eight previously treated children with ADHD (NAÏVE and NON-NAÏVE) were compared with 20 healthy controls (HCs) who underwent multiple NIRS measurements without intervention. We tested whether NIRS signals at the baseline assessment or ΔNIRS (single dose of MPH minus baseline assessment) predict the Clinical Global Impressions-Severity (CGI-S) score after 4-to-8-week or 1-year MPH administration. The secondary outcomes were the effect of MPH on NIRS signals after single-dose, 4-to-8-week, and 1-year administration. ΔNIRS significantly predicted CGI-S after 4-to-8-week MPH administration. The leave-one-out classification algorithm had 81% accuracy using the NIRS signal. ΔNIRS also significantly predicted CGI-S scores after 1 year of MPH administration. For secondary analyses, NAÏVE exhibited significantly lower prefrontal activation than HCs at the baseline assessment, whereas NON-NAÏVE and HCs showed similar activation. A single dose of MPH significantly increased activation compared with the placebo in NAÏVE. After 4-to-8-week administration, and even after MPH washout following 1-year administration, NAÏVE demonstrated normalized prefrontal activation. Supplementary NIRS measurements may serve as an objective biomarker for clinical decisions and monitoring concerning continuous MPH treatment in children with ADHD.
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