ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2017
Association of Preterm Birth With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder-Like and Wider-Ranging Neurophysiological Impairments of Attention and Inhibition.
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- Altered Functional Network Energy Across Multiscale Brain Networks in Preterm vs. Full-Term Subjects: Insights from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Zuranolone therapy protects frontal cortex neurodevelopment and improves behavioral outcomes after preterm birth.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Divergent neurodevelopmental profiles of very-low-birth-weight infants.Pediatric research · 2024Article
- Comparing the emotional impact of the UK COVID-19 lockdown in very preterm and full-term born children: a longitudinal study.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Quality of life, functional impairment and continuous performance task event-related potentials (ERPs) in young adults with ADHD and autism: A twin study.JCPP advances · 2022Article
- Adaptive Cognitive Control in Prematurely Born Children: An HD-EEG Investigation.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Psychiatric Outcomes, Functioning, and Participation in Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns at Age 15 Years.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022Article
- Longitudinal Analysis of Self-Reported Symptoms, Behavioral Measures, and Event-Related Potential Components of a Cued Go/NoGo Task in Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Controls.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Interaction of Impulsivity, Attention, and Intelligence in Early Adolescents Born Preterm without Sequelae.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Children Born Prematurely May Demonstrate Catch-Up Growth in Pre-Adolescence.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrigenda.2018
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
objectivePreterm birth has been associated with an increased risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-like symptoms and cognitive impairments similar to those seen in ADHD, including attention and inhibitory control difficulties. Yet data on direct comparisons across ADHD and preterm birth on cognitive-neurophysiological measures are limited.
methodWe directly compared 186 preterm-born adolescents to 69 term-born adolescents with ADHD and 135 term-born controls on cognitive-performance and event-related potential measures associated with attentional and inhibitory processing from a cued continuous performance test (CPT-OX), which we have previously shown to discriminate between the adolescents with ADHD and controls. We aimed to elucidate whether the ADHD-like symptoms and cognitive impairments in preterm-born individuals reflect identical cognitive-neurophysiological impairments in term-born individuals with ADHD.
resultsGo-P3 amplitude was reduced, reflecting impaired executive response control, in preterm-born adolescents compared to both controls and adolescents with ADHD. Moreover, in preterm-born adolescents, as in term-born adolescents with ADHD, contingent negative variation amplitude was attenuated, reflecting impairments in response preparation compared to controls. Although the ADHD group showed significantly increased NoGo-P3 amplitude at FCz compared to preterm group, at Cz preterm-born adolescents demonstrated significantly decreased NoGo-P3 amplitude compared to the control group, similar to term-born adolescents with ADHD.
conclusionThese findings indicate impairments in response preparation, executive response control, and response inhibition in preterm-born adolescents. Although the response preparation and response inhibition impairments found in preterm-born adolescents overlap with those found in term-born adolescents with ADHD, the preterm group also shows unique impairments, suggesting more wide-ranging impairments in the preterm group compared to the ADHD group.
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