Exploring How Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Are Related to Reading and Mathematics Performance: General Genes, General Environments

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1708-1715

  Hart, Sara A ^a   Petrill, Stephen A ^b   Willcutt, Erik ^c   Thompson, Lee A ^d   Schatschneider, Christopher ^a   Deater Deckard, Kirby ^e   Cutting, Laurie E ^f  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD behaviors; environments; genes; math performance; reading performance

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; READING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79953301635     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610386617     Document Type: Article

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