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Estimating biological accuracy of DSM for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder based on multivariate analysis for small samples.

Dimitri M Abramov, Vladimir V Lazarev, Saint Clair Gomes Junior, Carlos Alberto Mourao-Junior, Monique Castro-Pontes, Carla Q Cunha, Leonardo C deAzevedo, Evelyne Vigneau

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Dimitri M AbramovLaboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents' Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Vladimir V LazarevLaboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents' Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Saint Clair Gomes JuniorClinical Research Unit, National Institute of Women, Children, and Adolescents' Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Carlos Alberto Mourao-JuniorLaboratoy of Psychophysiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Monique Castro-PontesLaboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents' Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Carla Q CunhaLaboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents' Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Leonardo C deAzevedoLaboratory of Neurobiology and Clinical Neurophysiology, National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents' Health Fernandes Figueira, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Evelyne VigneauStatSC, Oniris, INRA, Nantes, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo estimate whether the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) is biologically accurate for the diagnosis of Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) using a biological-based classifier built by a special method of multivariate analysis of a large dataset of a small sample (much more variables than subjects), holding neurophysiological, behavioral, and psychological variables.

methodsTwenty typically developing boys and 19 boys diagnosed with ADHD, aged 10-13 years, were examined using the Attentional Network Test (ANT) with recordings of event-related potentials (ERPs). From 774 variables, a reduced number of latent variables (LVs) were extracted with a clustering of variables method (CLV), for further reclassification of subjects using the k-means method. This approach allowed a multivariate analysis to be applied to a significantly larger number of variables than the number of cases.

resultsFrom datasets including ERPs from the mid-frontal, mid-parietal, right frontal, and central scalp areas, we found 82% of agreement between DSM and biological-based classifications. The kappa index between DSM and behavioral/psychological/neurophysiological data was 0.75, which is regarded as a "substantial level of agreement". DISCUSSION: The CLV is a useful method for multivariate analysis of datasets with much less subjects than variables. In this study, a correlation is found between the biological-based classifier and the DSM outputs for the classification of subjects as either ADHD or not. This result suggests that DSM clinically describes a biological condition, supporting its validity for ADHD diagnostics.

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ADHDAttentional networks testClustering of variables around latent componentsDiagnosticDiagnostic and statistical manual of mental disordersEvent-related potentialsMultivariate analysis

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