ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Executive Function and Attention Performance in Children with ADHD: Effects of Medication and Comparison with Typically Developing Children.
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- Comparison of the effects of executive function training, medication treatment and support group intervention on the symptoms and executive functions of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
- Screening Results and Performance of the CBCL Using a two-step Procedure for Mental Disorders in Chinese Children and Adolescents: a five-year Survey.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- A Study of the Effects of Virtual Reality-Based Sports Games on Improving Executive and Cognitive Functions in Minors with ADHD-A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Is there a link between peripheral inflammation and blood brain barrier integrity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? A case-control study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Facial emotion recognition in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Nordic journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Systematic Review of Executive Function Stimulation Methods in the ADHD Population.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Effect of non-pharmacological treatment on the full recovery of social functioning in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.World journal of clinical cases · 2023Article
- Mental Health in Adults With ADHD: Examining the Relationship With Cardiorespiratory Fitness.Journal of attention disorders · 2023Article
- Exploring the Relationship between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Executive Functioning in Adults with ADHD.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Limited usefulness of neurocognitive functioning indices as predictive markers for treatment response to methylphenidate or neurofeedback@home in children and adolescents with ADHD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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- Acute Physical Activity, Executive Function, and Attention Performance in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Typically Developing Children: An Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
The emerging literature reports that children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) show deficits in executive functioning. To date, the combination of drug therapy with certain evidence-based non-medication interventions has been proven to be the most effective treatment for ADHD. There is a gap in the literature regarding comparing the executive functions (EF) of treatment naïve and medicated children with ADHD with both each other and typically developing children. Altogether, 50 treatment naïve and 50 medicated children with ADHD and 50 typically developing children between the ages of six and 12 were enrolled. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents (Mini Kid) and the Test of Attentional Performance for Children (KiTAP) measures were employed. Treatment naïve children with ADHD showed weaker performance on most executive function measures (12 out of 15) than either the medicated ADHD group or the controls. There were no significant differences between the medicated ADHD children and typically developing children in most KiTAP parameters (10 out of 15). Executive function impairments were observable in treatment naïve ADHD children, which draws attention to the importance of treating ADHD. Future studies should focus on the specific effects of stimulant medication on executive functions.
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