Visual processing of biological motion in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: an event related potential-study.

ABSTRACT: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is often accompanied by problems in social behaviour, which are sometimes similar to some symptoms of autism-spectrum disorders (ASD). However, neuronal mechanisms of ASD-like deficits in ADHD have rarely been studied. The processing of biological motion-recently discussed as a marker of social cognition-was found to be disrupted in ASD in several studies. Thus in the present study we tested if biological motion processing is disrupted in ADHD. We used 64-channel EEG and spatio-temporal source analysis to assess event-related potentials associated with human motion processing in 21 children and adolescents with ADHD and 21 matched typically developing controls. On the behavioural level, all subjects were able to differentiate between human an

SUBMITTER: Kroger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3919797 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature