TY - JOUR
T1 - To act or not to act, that's the problem: Primarily inhibition difficulties in adult ADHD.
AU - Boonstra, A.M.
AU - Kooij, J.J.S
AU - Oosterlaan, J.
AU - Sergeant, J.A.
AU - Buitelaar, J.K.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Forty-nine carefully diagnosed adults with persistent attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who had never been medicated for their ADHD, were compared with 49 normal control adults matched for age and gender on a large battery of tests in five domains of executive functioning (inhibition, fluency, planning, working memory, and set shifting) and several other neuropsychological functions to control for nonexecutive test demands. After stringent controls for nonexecutive function demands and IQ, adults with ADHD showed problems in inhibition and set shifting but not in any of the other executive functioning domains tested. We argue that adult ADHD may be mainly a disorder of inhibition. © 2010 American Psychological Association.
AB - Forty-nine carefully diagnosed adults with persistent attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who had never been medicated for their ADHD, were compared with 49 normal control adults matched for age and gender on a large battery of tests in five domains of executive functioning (inhibition, fluency, planning, working memory, and set shifting) and several other neuropsychological functions to control for nonexecutive test demands. After stringent controls for nonexecutive function demands and IQ, adults with ADHD showed problems in inhibition and set shifting but not in any of the other executive functioning domains tested. We argue that adult ADHD may be mainly a disorder of inhibition. © 2010 American Psychological Association.
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20230115
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017670
DO - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017670
M3 - Article
C2 - 20230115
SN - 0894-4105
VL - 24
SP - 209
EP - 221
JO - Neuropsychology
JF - Neuropsychology
IS - 2
ER -