ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Comparing Auditory Noise Treatment with Stimulant Medication on Cognitive Task Performance in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Results from a Pilot Study.
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- [Application of Preschool Auditory Processing Assessment Scale in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2023Article
- White Noise and Its Potential Applications in Occupational Health: A Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2023Review
- Random noise stimulation in the treatment of patients with neurological disorders.Neural regeneration research · 2022Review
- Cognitive performance, creativity and stress levels of neurotypical young adults under different white noise levels.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Dissociable effects of music and white noise on conflict-induced behavioral adjustments.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Testing the attention-distractibility trait.Memory & cognition · 2021Article
- Ten simple rules for supporting historically underrepresented students in science.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Sensory white noise improves reading skills and memory recall in children with reading disability.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Identifying site- and stimulation-specific TMS-evoked EEG potentials using a quantitative cosine similarity metric.PloS one · 2020Article
- Low intensity white noise improves performance in auditory working memory task: An fMRI study.Heliyon · 2019Article
- Acoustic white noise ameliorates reduced regional brain expression of CaMKII and ΔFosB in the spontaneously hypertensive rat model of ADHD.IBRO reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent research has shown that acoustic white noise (80 dB) can improve task performance in people with attention deficits and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is attributed to the phenomenon of stochastic resonance in which a certain amount of noise can improve performance in a brain that is not working at its optimum. We compare here the effect of noise exposure with the effect of stimulant medication on cognitive task performance in ADHD. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of auditory noise exposure with stimulant medication for ADHD children on a cognitive test battery. A group of typically developed children (TDC) took the same tests as a comparison.
methodsTwenty children with ADHD of combined or inattentive subtypes and twenty TDC matched for age and gender performed three different tests (word recall, spanboard and n-back task) during exposure to white noise (80 dB) and in a silent condition. The ADHD children were tested with and without central stimulant medication.
resultsIn the spanboard- and the word recall tasks, but not in the 2-back task, white noise exposure led to significant improvements for both non-medicated and medicated ADHD children. No significant effects of medication were found on any of the three tasks.
conclusionThis pilot study shows that exposure to white noise resulted in a task improvement that was larger than the one with stimulant medication thus opening up the possibility of using auditory noise as an alternative, non-pharmacological treatment of cognitive ADHD symptoms.
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