The diagnosis of ADHD is often missed or misdiagnosed in people with intellectual disability. Despite a significant growth in literature on the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in people without intellectual disability, there have been few studies on ADHD in people with intellectual disability. In this paper, we describe a group of adults with intellectual disability and ADHD disorder open to a specialist community intellectual disability service.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Several studies have investigated whether in utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is associated with increased risk of developing mental‐ or behavioral disorders. The aim of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta‐analysis based on this literature.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
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Psychological Assessment (Feb 25, 2019). DOI:10.1037/pas0000706
The current project outlines the development of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptom Infrequency Scale (ASIS), a stand-alone measure designed to identify individuals feigning or exaggerating symptoms to receive a diagnosis of ADHD.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common and highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex pathophysiology. Intracranial volume (ICV) and volumes of the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, caudate nucleus, hippocampus, and putamen are smaller in people with ADHD compared with healthy individuals. The authors investigated the overlap between common genetic variation associated with ADHD risk and these brain volume measures to identify underlying biological processes contributing to the disorder. . Login at top right hand side of page using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens for full text.
Neuropsychology (Jan 28, 2019). DOI:10.1037/neu0000531
Objective: Deficient planning is commonly observed among children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and is associated with several adverse outcomes. The current meta-analysis expands on previous reviews by examining performance and latency metrics across five tower planning task variants, in addition to applying metaregression techniques to examine potential moderating effects.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Psychological Assessment (Feb 7, 2019). DOI:10.1037/pas0000688
Despite widespread recognition that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder, optimal methods of diagnosis among adults remain elusive. Substantial overlap between ADHD symptoms and cognitive symptoms of other mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety, and concerns about validity in symptom reporting have made the use of neuropsychological tests in ADHD diagnostic assessment appealing. However, past work exploring the potential diagnostic utility of neuropsychological tests among adults has often relied on a relatively small subset of tests, has failed to include symptom and performance validity measures, and often does not include comparison groups of participants with commonly comorbid disorders, such as depression. The current study examined the utility of an extensive neuropsychological measure battery for diagnosing ADHD among adults.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Free access. Dissociative absorption is a tendency to become absorbed in imagination or in an external stimulus (movie, book) to the point of obliviousness to one's surroundings and reduced self‐awareness. It has been hypothesized to play a role in the maintenance of obsessive‐compulsive (OC) symptoms. However, because absorption is a trait of reduced attentional control, a possible confound may be attention‐deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) symptoms, which have been reported to be comorbid with obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD). This study aimed to validate dissociative absorption as unique from ADHD symptoms as well as from mind‐wandering and to show that it has incremental predictive value over these constructs in predicting OC symptoms.
The prevalence of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder diagnosis appears to have increased in recent years, with much discussion on the subject in the popular press. This article discusses the role of mental health nursesx in the management of this often underdiagnosed and undertreated condition in adults, taking account of extended roles such as non-medical prescribers and the recently published clinical guideline by the National Instititue for Health and Care Excellence. There is a continued need to support shared decision making, encourage adherence to treatment and reduce the negativity surrounding the use of controlled drugs to manage this condition. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence have updated the guideline on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The updated guideline offers advice for children under 5 years, children and young people aged 5 to 17 years and adults aged over 18 who are at risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The new guidance makes recommendations about recognising the condition, offering information and support, managing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, medication; maintenance and monitoring and adherence to treatment and review of medication and discontinuation. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Letter. We thank Leon and colleagues1 for highlighting a topic, namely the role of QEEG (quantitative electroencephalogram) in the management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that, due to space constraints, we could not address in our review.2. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Letter. The article by Cortese and Coghill comprehensively highlights the recent advances in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) research in terms of causes, diagnosis and treatment.1 The effort to understand the current status of the research is laid systematically and the lacunas in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria, prevalence estimation, exact role of environmental and genetic contribution have been addressed well. However, there are few pertinent points that we would like to highlight in this study in terms of plausible diagnostic tools …. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a serious and frequent psychiatric disorder of multifactorial pathogenesis. Several lines of evidence support the idea that ADHD is, in its core, a disorder of dysfunctional brain connectivity within and between several neurofunctional networks. The primary aim of this study was to investigate associations between the functional connectivity within resting state brain networks and the individual severity of core ADHD symptoms (inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity).
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology (Jan 10, 2019). DOI:10.1037/pha0000251
Multisensory environments facilitate behavioral functioning in humans. The redundant signal effect (RSE) refers to the observation that individuals respond more quickly to stimuli when information is presented as multisensory, redundant stimuli (e.g., aurally and visually) rather than as a single stimulus presented to either modality alone. RSE appears to be because of specialized multisensory neurons in the superior colliculus and association cortex that allow intersensory coactivation between the visual and auditory channels. Our studies show that the disinhibiting effects of alcohol are attenuated when stop signals are multisensory (e.g., Visual + Auditory stop signals) versus unisensory (Roberts, Monem, & Fillmore, 2016).. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Letter. The article by Cortese and Coghill comprehensively highlights the recent advances in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) research in terms of causes, diagnosis and treatment.1 The effort to understand the current status of the research is laid systematically and the lacunas in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria, prevalence estimation, exact role of environmental and genetic contribution have been addressed well. However, there are few pertinent points that we would like to highlight in this study in terms of plausible diagnostic tools …. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Psychopathy and ADHD are highly comorbid disorders, possibly linked to the underlying trait of impulsivity. It is therefore likely that ADHD symptoms are also of importance when studying cognitive functioning linked to psychopathy. Few studies of psychopathy and cognitive functioning have taken ADHD symptoms into account. In this cross-sectional study, male offenders (n = 201 of whom 105 were neuropsychologically tested) were recruited from all high security correctional facilities in Sweden. The aim of the study was to investigate if self-reported ADHD symptoms and cognitive functioning could predict specific subcomponents of psychopathy in offenders.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
BPS Blog post. For every girl with ADHD, there are three boys with the same diagnosis. But among adults, the gender ratio is more like 1:1. That’s a big discrepancy. So what’s going on?
In 2017, Aja Louise Murray and colleagues investigated possible predictors of childhood vs. later (adolescent/adult-onset) ADHD, and they found hints that girls tend to develop ADHD at a later age than boys. Now a team that includes the same researchers has investigated this explicitly and in their paper in Developmental Science, they’ve confirmed it seems to be the case, which could partially explain the discrepancy in the ADHD gender ratio between children and adults.