DSM-IV-defined inattention and sluggish cognitive tempo: Independent and interactive relations to neuropsychological factors and comorbidity

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 350-365

  Wåhlstedt, Cecilia ^a   Bohlin, Gunilla ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; DSM IV defined inattention; Neuropsychological factors; Sluggish cognitive tempo

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77954444017     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297041003671176     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the child behavior checklist 4-18 and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.
2. Acosta, M. T., Castellanos, F. X., Bolton, K. L., Balog, J. Z., Eagen, P., Nee. L. et al., (2008). Latent class subtyping of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and comorbid conditions. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 797-807.
3. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
4. Barkley, R. A. (1997). ADHD and the nature of self-control. New York: Guilford Press.
5. Barkley, R. A. (2006). Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. A handbook for diagnosis and treatment (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
6. Berlin, L., & Bohlin, G. (2002). Response inhibition, hyperactivity and conduct problems among preschool children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 31, 242-251.
7. Berlin, L., Bohlin, G., Nyberg, L., & Janols, L.-O. (2004). How well do measures of inhibition and other executive functions discriminate between children with ADHD and controls? Child Neuropsychology, 1, 1-13.
8. Biederman, J. (2005). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A selective overview. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1215-1220.
9. Börger, N., Van der Meere, J., Ronner, A., Alberts, A., Geuze, R., & Bogte, H. (1999). Heart rate variability and sustained attention in ADHD children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 27, 25-33.
10. Brocki, K. C., & Bohlin, G. (2004). Executive functions in children aged 6 to 13: A dimensional and developmental study. Developmental Neuropsychology, 26, 571-593.
11. Brocki, K. C., & Bohlin, G. (2006). Developmental change in the relation between executive functions and symptoms of ADHD and co-occurring behaviour problems. Infant and Child Development, 15, 19-40.
12. Brocki, K. C., Nyberg, L., Thorell, L. B., & Bohlin, G. (2007). Early concurrent and longitudinal symptoms of ADHD and ODD: Relations to different types of inhibitory control and working memory. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 1033-1041.
13. Carlson, C. L., & Mann, M. (2002). Sluggish cognitive tempo predicts a different pattern of impairment in the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, predominantly inattentive type. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 31, 123-129.
14. Carroll, J. M., Maughan, B., Goodman, R., & Meltzer, H. (2005). Literacy difficulties and psychiatric disorders: Evidence for comorbidity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 524-532.
15. Castellanos, F. X., Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S., Milham, M. P., & Tannock, R. (2006). Characterizing cognition in ADHD: Beyond executive dysfunction. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 117-123.
16. Chhabildas, N. A., Pennington, B. F., & Willcutt, E. G. (2001). A comparison of the cognitive deficit in the DSM-IV subtypes of ADHD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 9, 28-32.
17. Cohen, J., & Cohen, P. (1983). Applied multiple regression/ correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
18. Counts, C. A., Nigg, J. T., Stawicki, J. A., Marsha, M. A., Rappley, M. D., & Von Eye, A. (2005). Family adversity in DSM-IV ADHD combined and inattentive subtypes and associated disruptive behavior problems. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44, 690-698.
19. Diamond, A. (2005). Attention-deficit disorder (attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder without hyperactivity): A neurobiologically and behaviorally distinct disorder from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (with hyperactivity). Developmental Psychopathology, 17, 807-825.
20. DuPaul, G. J., Power, T. J., Anastopoulos, A. D., & Reid, R. (1998). ADHD rating Scale IV. Checklists, norms, and clinical interpretation. New York: Guilford Press.
21. Eiraldi, R. B., Power, T. J., & Nezu, C. M. (1997). Patterns of comorbidity associated with subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder among 6- to 12-year-old children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, 503-514.
22. Epstein, J. N., Erkanli, A., Conners, C. K., Klaric, J., Costello, J. E., & Angold, A. (2003). Relations between continuous performance test performance measures and ADHD behaviors. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 31, 543-554.
23. Gaub, M., & Carlson, C. L. (1997). Behavioral Characteristics of DSM-IV ADHD subtypes in a school-based population. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 25, 103-111.
24. 1/2-7 years old on a Stroop-like day-night test. Cognition, 53, 129-153.
25. Groth-Marnat, G. (1997). Handbook of psychological assessment (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
26. Hartman, C. A., Willcutt, E. G., Rhee, S. H., & Pennington, B. F. (2004). The relation between sluggish cognitive tempo and DSM-IV ADHD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 32, 491-503.
27. Henricsson, X. & Rydell, A.-M. (2006). Children with behavior problems: Development during the first six years of school. Infant and Child Development, 15, 347-366.
28. Hinshaw, S. P., Carte, E. T., Fan, C., Jassy, J. S., & Owens, E. B. (2007). Neuropsychological functioning of girls with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder followed prospectively into adolescence: Evidence for continuing deficits? Neuropsychology, 21, 263-273.
29. Hinshaw, S. P., Carte, E. T., Sami, N., Treuting, J. J., & Zupan, B. A. (2002). Preadolescent girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: II. Neuropsychological performance in relation to subtypes and individual classification. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 1099-1111.
30. Hooks, K., Milich, R., & Lorch, E. P. (1994). Sustained and selective attention in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 23, 69-77.
31. Huang-Pollock, C. L., & Nigg, J. T. (2003). Searching for the attention deficit in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: The case of visuospatial orienting. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 801-830.
32. Lahey, B. B., Pelham, W. E., Stein, M. A., & Loney, J., Trapani, C., Nugent, K., et al. (1998). Validity of DSM-IV Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder for young children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 695-702.
33. Lijffijt, M., Kenemans, J. L., Verbaten, M. N., & van Engeland, H. (2005). A meta-analytic review of stopping performance in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder: Deficient inhibitory motor control? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2, 216-222.
34. Malmberg, M., Rydell, A.-M., & Smedje, H. (2003). Validity of the Swedish version of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ-Swe). Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 57, 357-363.
35. Manly, T., Anderson, V., Nimmo-Smith, I., Turner, A., Watson, P., & Robertson, I. H. (2001). The differential assessment of children's attention: The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), normative sample and ADHD performance. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 1065-1081.
36. Massetti, G. M., Lahey, B. B., Pelham, W. E., Loney, J., Ehrhardt, A., Lee, S. S., et al. (2008). Academic achievement over 8 years among children who met modified criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder at 4-6 years of age. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 399-410.
37. McBurnett, K., Pfiffner, L. J., & Frick, P. J. (2001). Symptom properties as a function of ADHD type: An argument for continued study of sluggish cognitive tempo. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29, 207-213.
38. McInerney, R. J., Hrabok, M., & Kerns, K. A. (2005). The children's size-ordering task: A new measure of nonverbal working memory. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 27, 735-745.
39. Mikami, A. Y., Huang-Pollock, C. L., Pfiffner, L. J., McBurnett, K., & Hangai, D. (2007). Social skills differences among attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder types in a chat room assessment task. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35, 509-521.
40. Milich, R., Balentine, A. C., & Lynam, D. R. (2001). ADHD combined type and ADHD predominantly inattentive type are distinct and unrelated disorder. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 463-488.
41. Nassauer, K. W., & Halperin, J. M. (2003). Dissociation of perceptual and motor inhibition processes through the use of novel computerized conflict tasks. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 25-30.
42. Nigg, J. T. (2006). What causes ADHD? Understanding what goes wrong and why. New York: Guilford Press.
43. Rabiner, D., & Coie, J. D. (2000). Early attention problems and children's reading achievement: A longitudinal investigation. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 859-867.
44. Sergeant, J. (2000). The cognitive-energetic model: An empirical approach to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 24, 7-12.
45. Sergeant, J. A. (2005). Modeling attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A critical appraisal of the cognitive-energetic model. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1248-1255.
46. Simpson, A., & Riggs, K. J. (2005). Factors responsible for performance on the day-night task: Response set or semantics? Development Science, 8, 360-371.
47. Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-662.
48. Todd, R. D., Rasmussen, E. R., Wood, C., Levy, F., & Hay, D. A. (2004). Should sluggish cognitive tempo symptoms be included in the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 588-597.
49. Trommer, B. L., Hoeppner, J.-A. B., Lorber, R., & Armstrong, K. (1988). The Go/No-Go paradigm in attention deficit disorder. Annuals of Neurology, 24, 610-614.
50. Van der Meere, J., & Sergeant, J. (1988). Controlled processing and vigilance in hyperactivity: Time will tell. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 16, 641-655.
51. Wåhlstedt, C. (2009). Neuropsychological deficits in relation to symptoms of ADHD: Independent contributions and interactions. Child Neuropsychology, 15, 262-279.
52. Wåhlstedt, C., Thorell, L. B., & Bohlin, G. (2009). Heterogeneity in ADHD: Neuropsychological pathways, comorbidity and symptom domains. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 551-564.
53. Wechsler, D. (1991). Wechsler intelligence scale for children (3rd ed.). (Psykologiförlaget AB, Stockholm, Trans.) New York: Psychological Corporation.
54. Weinberg, W. A., & Harper, C. R. (1993). Vigilance and its disorder. Neurologic Clinics, 11, 59-78.
55. Wilding, J. (2005). Is attention impaired in ADHD? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 23, 487-505.
56. Willcutt, E. G., Doyle, A. E., Nigg, J. T., Faraone, S. V., & Pennington, B. F. (2005). Validity of the Executive function theory of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analytic review. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1336-1346.