Association Between Response Inhibition and Working Memory in Adult ADHD: A Link to Right Frontal Cortex Pathology?

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1395-1401

  Clark, Luke ^a   Blackwell, Andrew D ^b   Aron, Adam R ^c   Turner, Danielle C ^b   Dowson, Jonathan ^b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Sahakian, Barbara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; hyperactivity; impulsivity; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERROR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE INHIBITION; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOP SIGNAL REACTION TIME TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249810358     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.07.020     Document Type: Article

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