An assessment of hemineglect in children with attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder

Disengagement and inhibition of visual–spatial attention are differently impaired in children with rolandic epilepsy and Panayiotopoulos syndrome

“…Such a phenomenon can contribute to increase the cost in the absence of any deficit in reorienting attention. Moreover, contrary to the hypothesis from Heilman et al [104], no clear evidence of sub-clinical neglect has been found in ADHD by using exogenous cueing [100,105] or other tasks, such as line bisection of visual target cancelation tests [106]. Therefore, on the basis of previous studies, the emergence of a unilateral increase in cost when comorbid ADHD was included in our sample of children with BECTS-R could hardly be unequivocally attributed to a disengaging deficit in ADHD.…”

Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children

“…For the sake of completeness, it is mentioned that uni-and bilateral neglect of visual stimuli has also been reported in children with attention-defi cit disorder (ADD) (Voeller and Heilman 1988 ;Ben-Artsy et al 1996 ). The authors speculate a parietal dysfunction as the basis for this visual-attentional dysfunction.…”

Asymmetrical Visual-Spatial Attention in College Students Diagnosed With ADD/ADHD

“…Interestingly, both groups of children showed a leftward bias unlike the rightward bias observed by Voeller and Heilman 6. Ben-Artsy et al12 attempted to replicate Voeller and Heilman’s6 study in boys 7 to 10 years old with diagnosed ADHD performing the line bisection and target cancellation tasks. Contrasting to previous research, the children with ADHD did not differ from controls.…”