The relationship between ADHD and key cognitive phenotypes is not mediated by shared familial effects with IQ

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 861-871

  Wood, A C ^a,b   Rijsdijk, F ^a   Johnson, K A ^c,d   Andreou, P ^a   Albrecht, B ^e   Arias Vasquez, A ^f,g   Buitelaar, J K ^f   McLoughlin, G ^a   Rommelse, N N J ^f   Sergeant, J A ^h   Sonuga Barke, E J S ^i,j   Uebel, H ^e   Van Der Meere, J J ^k   Banaschewski, T ^l   Gill, M ^c   Manor, I ^m   Miranda, A ⁿ   Mulas, F ^o   Oades, R D ^p   Roeyers, H ^j   Rothenberger, A ^e   Steinhausen, H C ^q,r,s   Faraone, S V ^t   Asherson, P ^a   Kuntsi, J ^a   more..

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^j GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^m HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^o HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^p UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^r UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^s AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^t State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

ADHD; cognitive; heritability; intermediate phenotype; IQ

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY TEST; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTELLIGENCE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 79959549959     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329171000108X     Document Type: Article

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