No Evidence for Inhibitory Deficits or Altered Reward Processing in ADHD: Data From a New Integrated Monetary Incentive Delay Go/No-Go Task

Journal of Attention Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 353-367

  Demurie, Ellen ^a   Roeyers, Herbert ^a   Wiersema, Jan R ^a   Sonuga Barke, Edmund ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADHD; autism spectrum disorder; response inhibition; reward processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962921330     PISSN: 10870547     EISSN: 15571246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087054712473179     Document Type: Article

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