ArticleJournal of attention disorders2022
Cognitive and Neuroimaging Profiles of Older Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Presenting to a Memory Clinic.
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- A systematic review of neuroimaging studies of adults aged 35 and older with clinical, symptomatic and genetic risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Association Between the Genetic Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Cognitive Function in Older Age: The MYHAT Population-Based Study.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Risk of Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- The lifespan continuum of brain disorders: investigating links between neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease-chicken or egg?Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Adult ADHD as a risk factor for dementia: integrating longitudinal evidence, mechanistic insights, and the role of stimulant treatment.Frontiers in dementia · 2025Review
- [Epidemiology, diagnostics and treatment of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in advanced age].Der Nervenarzt · 2023Review
- From attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder to sporadic Alzheimer's disease-Wnt/mTOR pathways hypothesis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neurocognitive and cerebellar function in ADHD, autism and spinocerebellar ataxia.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2023Review
- Natural product-based pharmacological studies for neurological disorders.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Mild Cognitive Impairment or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Older Adults? A Cross Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- ADHD and Neurodegenerative Disease Risk: A Critical Examination of the Evidence.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Review
- Identifying reversible psychiatric dementia mimics in new memory clinic outpatients.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reportsArticle
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Abstract
objectiveSome features of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may resemble those of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in older adults, contributing to diagnostic uncertainty in individuals seeking assessment in memory clinics. We systematically compared cognition and brain structure in ADHD and MCI to clarify the extent of overlap and identify potential features unique to each.
methodOlder adults from a Cognitive Neurology clinic (40 ADHD, 29 MCI, 37 controls) underwent neuropsychological assessment. A subsample (
resultsMemory was impaired in both patient groups, but reflected a storage deficit in MCI (supported by relatively smaller hippocampi) and an encoding deficit in ADHD (supported by frontal lobe thinning). Both groups displayed normal executive functioning. Semantic retrieval was uniquely impaired in MCI.
conclusionAlthough ADHD has been proposed as a dementia risk factor or prodrome, we propose it is rather a pathophysiologically-unique phenotypic mimic acting via overlap in memory and executive performance.
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