Associations between event-related potentials and measures of attention and inhibition in the continuous performance task in children with ADHD and normal controls

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 977-985

  Overtoom, Carin C E ^a   Verbaten, Marinus N ^a   Kemner, Chantal ^b   Kenemans, J Leon ^a   Van Engeland, Herman ^b   Buitelaar, Jan K ^b   Camfferman, Gert ^a   Koelega, Harry S ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Continuous Performance Task; Event related potentials; Impulsivity; Inhibition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031754115     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199809000-00018     Document Type: Article

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