Reaction time performance in ADHD: Improvement under fast-incentive condition and familial effects

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1703-1715

  Andreou, Penny ^a   Neale, Ben M ^a   Chen, Wai ^a   Christiansen, Hanna ^b   Gabriels, Isabel ^c   Heise, Alexander ^d   Meidad, Sheera ^e   Muller, Ueli C ^f   Uebel, Henrik ^d   Banaschewski, Tobias ^d,g   Manor, Iris ^e   Oades, Robert ^b   Roeyers, Herbert ^c   Rothenberger, Aribert ^d   Sham, Pak ^a   Steinhausen, Hans Christoph ^f   Asherson, Philip ^a   Kuntsi, Jonna ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e GEHA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOTIVATION; PHENOTYPE; REACTION TIME; SIBLINGS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 36048957548     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291707000815     Document Type: Article

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