Association of preterm birth with ADHD-like cognitive impairments and additional subtle impairments in attention and arousal malleability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whilst preterm-born individuals have an increased risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and are reported to have ADHD-like attention and arousal impairments, direct group comparisons are scarce.

Methods

We directly compared preterm-born adolescents (n = 186) to term-born adolescents with ADHD (n = 69), and term-born controls (n = 135), aged 11-23, on cognitive-performance, event-related potential and skin conductance level (SCL) measures associated with attention and arousal. The measures are from baseline and fast-incentive conditions of a four-choice reaction time task, previously shown to discriminate between the individuals with ADHD and controls. We aimed to establish whether preterm-born adolescents show: (a) identical cognitive

SUBMITTER: James SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6088527 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature