Screening and Imputed Prevalence of ADHD in Adult Patients with Comorbid Substance Use Disorder at a Residential Treatment Facility
Postgraduate Medicine, 10/05/2009
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Adler LA et al. – The positive predictive value (PPV) for the Adult ADHD Self Report Scale (ASRS) v 1.1 Screener for adult ADHD in this sample of adults with substance ... that observed in the community–based sample. The imputed prevalence rate for comorbid ADHD in this study of adults with SUD in a RTF was similar to, but slightly lower than the prevalence rate of ADHD in patients with any SUD observed in the community–based sample.
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Incremental Employee Health Benefit Costs, Absence Days, and Turnover Among Employees With ADHD and Among Employees With Children With ADHD
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 10/29/2009
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Kleinman NL et al. – Employees with ADHD and those caring for children with ADHD are associated with a significantly higher burden in employer–relevant
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Reduced Capacity in a Dichotic Memory Test for Adult Patients With ADHD
Journal of Attention Disorders, 10/01/2009
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Dige N et al. – The ADHD participants showed significant impairment in the dichotic memory test compared with control participants when controlled for age, sex, and education. Study findings reveal that there is no difference in subdivision in the three ADHD subgroups of ... discriminant analysis shows an overall classification rate of 78% and specific in ADHD 80%.
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HRQL and medication satisfaction in children with ADHD treated with the methylphenidate transdermal system
Current Medical Research and Opinion, 10/27/2009
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Manos M et al. – MTS treatment of ADHD was associated with robust improvement in child and family HRQL, key economic impact items, and overall medication satisfaction with the effectiveness and ease of use of MTS as an ADHD
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Sex Differences in the Functional Neuroanatomy of Working Memory in Adults With ADHD
American Journal of Psychiatry, 11/06/2009
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Valera EM et al. – Male but not female adults with ADHD showed significantly altered patterns of neural activity during a verbal working memory task. Men and women showed different associations between neural activity and ADHD symptoms.
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Amygdala reduction in patients with ADHD compared with major depression and healthy volunteers
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 11/03/2009
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Frodl T et al. – The study supports findings that the amygdala plays an important role in the systemic brain pathophysiology of ADHD. Whether patients with ADHD and larger amygdala volumes are more
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Order of Conners' CPT-II Administration Within a Cognitive Test Battery Influences ADHD Indices
Journal of Attention Disorders, 10/19/2009
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Erdodi LA et al. – If the CPT–II is administered later in a sequence of tests, it is more likely to yield scores in the impaired range. Order effects are more pronounced in individuals diagnosed with ADHD. Recommendations include the ... administration sequence, further research to investigate the nature of order effects, and a strategic use of order effects in ADHD assessment.
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Intellectual Deficits in Children with ADHD Beyond Central Executive and Non-Executive Functions
Archives of Clinical Neurospsychology, 10/16/2009
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Tillmana CM et al. – The results showed that children with ADHD had poorer fluid and crystallized intelligence, relative to both comparison groups. Further, regarding fluid intelligence, these ... functioning on the studied EF–related components and non–EFs. The authors tentatively interpret these fluid deficits in children with ADHD as representing deficiencies in a general intellectual resource reflecting executive attentional processes. Concerning crystallized ability, in
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Maternal Ratings of Attention Problems in ADHD: Evidence for the Existence of a Continuum
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 10/08/2009
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Lubke GH et al. – Factor mixture analyses provide evidence that the CBCL AP syndrome varies along a severity continuum of mild to moderate to severe attention problems. Children affected with ADHD are at the extreme of the ... are important for clinicians, research scholars, and the framers of the DSM–V as they provide evidence that ADHD diagnoses exist on a continuum rather than as discrete categories.
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A Candidate Gene Analysis of Methylphenidate Response in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 10/29/2009
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McGough JJ et al. – The article confirms and expands previous studies suggesting that genes moderate ADHD treatment response. The ADHD outcomes are not unitary but reflect both behavioral and learning domains that are likely influenced by different genes.
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