ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2020
Sluggish cognitive tempo and processing speed in adolescents with ADHD: do findings vary based on informant and task?
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- Systematic Review: Assessment of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Over the Past Decade.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation for children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNPooled it
- Neurocognition in children with cognitive disengagement syndrome: accurate but slow.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2024Article
- Unified and distinct cognitive control deficits in adolescents with cognitive disengagement syndrome and learning burnout.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Report of a Work Group on Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: Key Research Directions and a Consensus Change in Terminology to Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Article
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- Co-occurring medical and behavioural conditions in children with Down syndrome with or without ADHD symptom presentation.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2022Article
- Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Neuropsychological Functioning.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Preschool Neuropsychological Predictors of School-aged Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Inattentive Behaviors.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome: A construct at the crossroads.The American psychologistReview
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Abstract
Few studies have examined whether behavioral sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) symptoms are related to speeded task performance. Mixed findings in existing research could be due to previous studies using a broad conceptualization of processing speed, not including self-report of SCT symptoms, and relying on non-optimal measures of SCT. Using a multi-informant design with both parent- and adolescent-reported SCT symptoms, the present study provides a preliminary test of the hypothesis that SCT symptoms would be associated with slower performance on tasks having greater graphomotor and fine motor demands. Participants were 80 adolescents (ages 13-17 years; 71% male) with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Adolescents and parents completed ratings of SCT. Adolescents were administered the Wechsler Symbol Search and Coding subtests and the Grooved Pegboard Test. When adjusting for age, sex, and ADHD symptom severity, parent-reported SCT symptoms were not significantly associated with Symbol Search or Coding scores but were significantly associated with slower Grooved Pegboard time. Adolescent-reported SCT symptoms were not significantly associated with Symbol Search but were significantly associated with lower Coding scores and slower Grooved Pegboard time. Findings provide preliminary support for the hypothesis that SCT may be more clearly associated with processing speed task performance as motor demands increase and provide a potential explanation for the mixed literature on SCT in relation to processing speed by demonstrating that the presence and magnitude of associations vary by informant and task.
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