Working memory deficits can be overcome: Impacts of training and medication on working memory in children with ADHD

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 827-836

  Holmes, Joni ^a   Gathercole, Susan E ^b   Place, Maurice ^c   Dunning, Darren L ^b   Hilton, Kerry A ^d   Elliott, Julian G ^d  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c Hartlepool Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMPHETAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE;

ADOLESCENT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING; TREATMENT DURATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 78049249832     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1589     Document Type: Article

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