ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2018
Facial Emotion Recognition and Eye Gaze in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With and Without Comorbid Conduct Disorder.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Disrupted Attention to Other's Eyes is Linked to Symptoms of ADHD in Childhood.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Understanding de novo onset of anxiety during COVID-19: Pre-pandemic socio-emotional functioning in vulnerable children.JCPP advances · 2022Article
- Cognitive deficits for facial emotions among male adolescent delinquents with conduct disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Improving emotion recognition is associated with subsequent mental health and well-being in children with severe behavioural problems.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Intervention response among preschoolers with ADHD: The role of emotion understanding.Journal of school psychology · 2021Article
- Eye gaze patterns and functional brain responses during emotional face processing in adolescents with conduct disorder.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Article
- Facial Emotion Recognition in Children and Adolescents with Specific Learning Disorder.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- The nature and extent of emotion recognition and empathy impairments in children showing disruptive behaviour referred into a crime prevention programme.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveConduct disorder (CD) is associated with impairments in facial emotion recognition. However, CD commonly co-occurs with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); thus, it is unclear whether these impairments are explained by ADHD or by one of its core features-inattention. We explored whether emotion recognition impairments are specific to individuals with ADHD and comorbid CD while also examining the mechanisms that might explain such deficits.
methodA total of 63 male and female adolescents with ADHD (mean age = 14.2 years, age range = 11-18 years) and with (ADHD+CD) or without (ADHD) comorbid CD, and 41 typically developing controls (healthy controls [HC]; mean age = 15.5, age range = 11-18 years) performed an emotion recognition task with concurrent eye-tracking.
resultsParticipants with ADHD+CD were less accurate at recognizing fear and neutral faces, and more likely to confuse fear with anger than participants with ADHD alone and HC. Both ADHD subgroups fixated the eye region less than HC. Although there was a negative correlation between ADHD symptom severity and eye fixation duration, only CD severity was inversely related to emotion recognition accuracy.
conclusionOnly ADHD participants with comorbid CD showed impairments in emotion recognition, suggesting that these deficits are specific to individuals with conduct problems. However, lack of attention to the eye region of faces appears to be a characteristic of ADHD. These findings suggest that emotion recognition impairments in those with ADHD+CD are related to misinterpretation rather than poor attention, offering interesting opportunities for intervention.
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