How specific is a deficit of executive functioning for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 3-28

  Sergeant, Joseph A ^a   Geurts, Hilde ^a   Oosterlaan, Jaap ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Fluency; Higher functioning autism; Inhibition; Planning; Stop signal task; Stroop; Tower of London; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; IMPULSIVENESS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERFORMANCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037051153     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00430-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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