Inhibition and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Vol. 25 (1), 7-13
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025799122529
Abstract
This paper updates the author's earlier hypothesis that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) reflects underactivity in Gray's Behavioral Inhibition System. Five areas of research are reviewed: (1) studies using the stop-signal task, (2) studies of errors of commission, (3) a study of inhibition indexed by eye movements, (4) a neuroimaging study of the corpus callosum, and (5) a study on the prediction of response to methylphenidate. Data from the many different dependent variables in these studies are interpreted as supporting disinhibition as a core deficit in ADHD.Keywords
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