ArticleChild neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence2018
Positive emotional attention bias in young children with symptoms of ADHD.
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- Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders. A Narrative Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Comparison of face attention bias in adults with ASD, ADHD, or comorbid ADHD+ASD.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- The impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on attention bias modification in children with ADHD.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2024Article
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improves emotion regulation in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- An Emotional Bias Modification for Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Co-design Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Facial emotion recognition impairment predicts social and emotional problems in children with (subthreshold) ADHD.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Article
- Developmental Variation in the Associations of Attention Bias to Emotion with Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Emotional Bias Modification for Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Protocol for a Co-Design Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Emotional Bias Modification in Youths with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): New Research Vista.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Attention bias to reward predicts behavioral problems and moderates early risk to externalizing and attention problems.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
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Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience emotional dysregulation. Dysregulation can arise from heightened attention to emotional stimuli. Emotional attention biases are associated with a number of adverse socioemotional outcomes including reward sensitivity and externalizing behaviors. As reward sensitivity and externalizing behaviors are common in children with ADHD, the aim of the current study was to determine whether emotional attention biases are evident in young children with clinically significant ADHD symptoms. To test this, children with (n = 18) and without (n = 15) symptoms of ADHD were tested on a Dot Probe task. Provided recent evidence that emotional attention biases are attenuated by sleep, the task was performed before and after overnight sleep. Children with ADHD symptoms displayed positive, but not negative, attention biases at both time points, whereas typically developing children did not preferentially attend toward or away from positive or negative stimuli. Sleep did not alter attention biases in either group. Collectively, these results indicate that children with ADHD symptoms have stable, positive attention biases.
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