Prevalence and diagnostic validity of motivational impairments and deficits in visuospatial short-term memory and working memory in ADHD subtypes

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 575-590

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ADHD subtypes; Reinforcement; Reward; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW SCHEDULE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DSM-IV; DSM-IV-TR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATIONAL DEFICIT; MOTIVATIONAL IMPAIRMENT; PREVALENCE; REINFORCEMENT; VISUOSPATIAL SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUOSPATIAL WORKING MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84928893296     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-014-0612-1     Document Type: Article

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