Improving executive functioning in children with ADHD: Training multiple executive functions within the context of a computer game. A randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial

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Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Dovis, Sebastiaan ^a   Van Der Oord, Saskia ^a,b   Wiers, Reinout W ^a   Prins, Pier J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FULL ACTIVE CONDITION; GAME; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIALLY ACTIVE CONDITION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO GAME;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84926631801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121651     Document Type: Article

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