ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2019
The relationship between alpha asymmetry and ADHD depends on negative affect level and parenting practices.
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- Infant frontal alpha asymmetry predicts social attention and transdiagnostic risk for emotional reactivity.JCPP advances · 2026Article
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- Delineating early developmental pathways to ADHD: Setting an international research agenda.JCPP advances · 2023Article
- The Oregon ADHD-1000: A new longitudinal data resource enriched for clinical cases and multiple levels of analysis.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Frontal and parietal EEG alpha asymmetry: a large-scale investigation of short-term reliability on distinct EEG systems.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Resting frontal alpha asymmetry as a predictor of executive and affective functioning in children with neurodevelopmental differences.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Asymmetry in the Central Nervous System: A Clinical Neuroscience Perspective.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Review
- Development of ADHD: Etiology, Heterogeneity, and Early Life Course.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2020Article
- Toward a Revised Nosology for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Heterogeneity.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2020Review
- Emotion-Cognition Interactions in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Increased Early Attention Capture and Weakened Attentional Control in Emotional Contexts.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2020Article
- Electroencephalographic and Neuroimaging Asymmetry Correlation in Patients with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Neural plasticity · 2020Article
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Abstract
Atypical frontal alpha asymmetry is associated with the approach/withdrawal and affective processes implicated in many psychiatric disorders. Rightward alpha asymmetry, associated with high approach, is a putative endophenotype for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, findings are inconsistent, likely because of a failure to consider emotional heterogeneity within the ADHD population. In addition, how this putative risk marker interacts with environmental factors known to increase symptom severity, such as parenting practices, has not been examined. The current study examined patterns of alpha asymmetry in a large sample of adolescents with and without ADHD, including the moderating role of negative affect and inconsistent discipline. Resting-state EEG was recorded from 169 well-characterized adolescents (nADHD = 79). Semi-structured clinical interviews and well-validated rating scales were used to create composites for negative affect and inconsistent discipline. The relationship between alpha asymmetry and ADHD diagnosis was moderated by negative affect. Right asymmetry was present only for those with ADHD and low levels of negative affect. In addition, greater right alpha asymmetry predicted severity of ADHD symptoms for those with the disorder, but only in the context of inconsistent parenting practices. Results confirm right alpha asymmetry is a possible endophenotype in ADHD but highlight the need to consider emotional heterogeneity and how biological risk interacts with child environment in order to fully characterize its relationship to disorder liability and severity.
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