Does the cortisol response to stress mediate the link between expressed emotion and oppositional behavior in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD)?

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Christiansen, Hanna ^a,b   Oades, Robert D ^a   Psychogiou, Lamprini ^c   Hauffa, Berthold P ^d   Sonuga Barke, Edmund J ^e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^g KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SALIVA; SCHOOL CHILD; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954544777     PISSN: 17449081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-6-45     Document Type: Article

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