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ReviewChild psychiatry and human development2025

Increasing Health Literacy on ADHD: A Cross-Disciplinary Integrative Review Examining the Impact of ADHD on Brain Maturation, Composition and Function and Cognitive Processes Across the Life Course.

Louise E Brown, Mary Tallon, Mark A Bellgrove, Daniel Rudaizky, Garth Kendall, Mark Boyes, Bronwyn Myers

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Review in Child psychiatry and human development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Louise E BrownFaculty of Health Sciences, enAble Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia. louise.e.brown@postgrad.curtin.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-3782-4435
Mary TallonFaculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9500-0470
Mark A BellgroveSchool of Psychological Sciences, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0186-8349
Daniel RudaizkyFaculty of Health Sciences, enAble Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9510-7382
Garth KendallFaculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-8198
Mark BoyesFaculty of Health Sciences, enAble Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5420-8606
Bronwyn MyersFaculty of Health Sciences, enAble Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0235-6716

Funding

Australian Government RTP ScholarshipNational Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant 1173043
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a significant need to improve ADHD health literacy. This cross-disciplinary integrative review was conducted to synthesise the evidence on the impact ADHD has on brain maturation, composition and function as well as cognitive processes, across the life course. Although results are highly heterogenous, ADHD appears to be associated with (1) a significant delay in cortical maturation and differences in neuroanatomy that do not appear to fully resolve in adulthood, (2) atypical brain function, and (3) atypical cognitive processes. The cognitive processes implicated include working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, alerting attention, reward processing, long-term memory, reaction time, time perception and estimation, planning, and complex decision making/problem-solving. We aim to use this data to develop a 'framework/checklist" that parents, adults and clinicians can use to identify the possible mechanisms that may be contributing to an individual with ADHD's challenges. This information can also be used to inform the content of ADHD education programs to ensure participants receive empirically-determine information from high quality review studies and meta-analysis that accurately reflects the rigor and limitations of study findings.

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ADHDChild developmentCognitionHealth literacyNeuropsychological development

Identifiers

PMID40011386

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