Cognitive-motivational deficits in ADHD: Development of a classification system

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-81

  Gupta, Rashmi ^a   Kar, Bhoomika R ^a   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

ADHD; Choice Delay test; ODD; Stop Signal test; Task Switching test

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651308189     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2010.524152     Document Type: Article

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