1996
DOI: 10.1007/bf01441570
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Neuropsychological functioning, motor speed, and language processing in boys with and without ADHD

Abstract: We administered a neuropsychological battery to boys aged 6 to 12 years old diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n = 51) and to comparison boys of the same age range (n = 31). Boys with ADHD had greater difficulty than comparison youngsters on nonautomated language and motor tasks administered with a fast instructional set and on one of two traditional frontal executive measures (Porteus mazes). When tasks requiring automatic processing were paired with similar tasks requiring greater… Show more

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“…This result is somewhat unexpected given the range of literature that has reported deficient gross motor ability as determined by neurological soft-sign tests (e.g. Carte et al 1996, Barkley 1998, Nigg et al 1998. Additionally, given that the presence of 'soft' neurological signs has been shown to improve or resolve with the use of methylphenidate (Lerer and Lerer 1976) and that the ADHD children within the current study were tested unmedicated, it seemed more likely that these differences would have been observed in the current study as opposed to the Piek et al study (1999) 60% of the ADHD-C children were medicated.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…This result is somewhat unexpected given the range of literature that has reported deficient gross motor ability as determined by neurological soft-sign tests (e.g. Carte et al 1996, Barkley 1998, Nigg et al 1998. Additionally, given that the presence of 'soft' neurological signs has been shown to improve or resolve with the use of methylphenidate (Lerer and Lerer 1976) and that the ADHD children within the current study were tested unmedicated, it seemed more likely that these differences would have been observed in the current study as opposed to the Piek et al study (1999) 60% of the ADHD-C children were medicated.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…The fine motor problems were not due to a general motor deficit, as none of the children with ADHD were diagnosed as having DCD. Notwithstanding the absence of a general motor deficit, other studies also report poor fine motor skills in children with ADHD (Carte et al 1996, Piek et al 1999, Steger et al 2001). The question is how to explain these results.…”
Section: Parameter Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Deficits have been reported in encoding, perception, language, visuomotor integration, motor functioning, learning, memory, temporal processing, wordreading, color-naming, and pattern-and spatial recognition (August and Garfinkel 1989;Banaschewski et al 2005;Blondis 1999;Boonstra et al 2005b;Carte et al 1996;Dowson et al 2004;Garcia-Sanchez et al 1997;Halperin and Schulz 2006;Johnson et al 2001;Kadesjo and Gillberg 1999;Mangeot et al 2001;Purvis and Tannock 1997;Raggio 1999;Rhodes et al 2005;Rucklidge 2006;Sergeant 2000;Sergeant and Van der Meere 1990;Tannock et al 2006;Van Mourik et al 2005). It thus seems valuable to acquire some measures of baseline functioning in patients with ADHD, when studying higher order cognitive processes.…”
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confidence: 99%