ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2020
Volitional eye movement control and ADHD traits: a twin study.
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- Saliency Models Reveal Reduced Top-Down Attention in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Naturalistic Eye-Tracking Study.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Auxiliary Diagnosis of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Using Eye-Tracking and Digital Biomarkers: Case-Control Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Article
- Development of an innovative approach using portable eye tracking to assist ADHD screening: a machine learning study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Endophenotype trait domains for advancing gene discovery in autism spectrum disorder.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2023Review
- Aberrant brain dynamics and spectral power in children with ADHD and its subtypes.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Eye-movement indices of arousal predict ADHD and comorbid externalizing symptoms over a 2-year period.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Clinical Saccadometry: Establishing Evaluative Standards Using a Simplified Video Oculography Protocol in the Adult Population.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2023Article
- Orexin/Hypocretin System Dysfunction in ESSENCE (Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations).Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2022Article
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Integrating the MOXO-dCPT with an Eye Tracker Enhances Diagnostic Precision.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in visual attention and oculomotor control in early infancy.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
backgroundTop-down volitional command of eye movements may serve as a candidate endophenotype of ADHD, an important function underlying goal-directed action in everyday life. In this twin study, we examined the relation between performance on a response inhibition eye-tracking paradigm and parent-rated ADHD traits in a population-based twin sample. We hypothesized that altered eye movement control is associated with the severity of ADHD traits and that this association is attributable to genetic factors.
methodsA total of 640 twins (320 pairs, 50% monozygotic) aged 9-14 years) from the Child and Adolescent Twin Study in Sweden (CATSS) participated. Twins performed the antisaccade task indexing inhibitory alterations as either direction errors (following exogenous cues rather than instructions) or premature anticipatory eye movements (failure to wait for cues). We calculated the associations of eye movement control and ADHD traits using linear regression mixed-effects models and genetic and environmental influences with multivariate twin models.
resultsPremature anticipatory eye movements were positively associated with inattentive traits (β = .17; 95% CI: 0.04, 0.31), while controlling for hyperactive behaviors and other covariates. Both premature anticipatory eye movements and inattention were heritable (h
conclusionsThis study indicates that there is a specific, genetically influenced, relation between top-down eye movement control and the inattentive traits typical of ADHD.
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