A verbal planning impairment in adult ADHD indexed by script generation tasks.
J Atten Disord
; 14(3): 220-31, 2010 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Though juvenile and adult ADHD cases are well known to have a nonverbal planning impairment, a verbal-planning impairment has been demonstrated only in juvenile ADHD. The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether a verbal planning impairment also characterizes adult ADHD.METHODS:
A cohort of 30 adult ADHD clients of a university psychological clinic are compared to 30 age-, education-, gender-, and IQ-matched persons recruited from the general population who did not have ADHD. The dependent measure is a set of 6 paper/pencil 10-item script generation tasks.RESULTS:
The findings reveal that the ADHD cohort was significantly impaired on the script task and the script task correlated significantly with severity of ADHD (CAARS index + WURS), whereas several neuropsychological measures of executive function (Stroop, COWA, Rey's Complex Figure, D2, CVLT, CPT-II) did not. Findings further showed that the script measure was weakly correlated with the other established neuropsychological measures of executive function (r < .46, shared variance of less than 21%).CONCLUSIONS:
On the basis of the study findings, it is concluded that verbal planning measured with script generation tasks is distinctly impaired in clinically referred adult ADHD.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade
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Cognição
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Função Executiva
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Atten Disord
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá