Duration discrimination in the range of milliseconds and seconds in children with ADHD and their unaffected siblings

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1745-1751

  Himpel, S ^a   Banaschewski, T ^b   Gruttner A ^a   Becker, A ^a   Heise, A ^a   Uebel, H ^a   Albrecht, B ^a   Rothenberger, A ^a   Rammsayer, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Automatic timing; Cognitively controlled timing; Duration discrimination task; Endophenotypes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MARKER; EFFECT SIZE; FAMILY RELATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIBLINGS; TIME FACTORS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 70449625249     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329170900542X     Document Type: Article

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