Anterior insula hyperactivation in ADHD when faced with distracting negative stimuli.

ABSTRACT: Patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) suffer from poor emotion regulation that might arise from problems in the distribution of attentional resources when confronted with emotional distractors. Previous studies investigating the neurocognitive basis of these problems remain inconclusive. Moreover, most of these studies did not exclude participants with comorbidity, particularly of conduct or oppositional defiant disorder. The aim of this study was to assess alterations in fronto-limbic activation in ADHD adolescents specifically during negative distractors in an emotional attention task. For this purpose, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess 25 boys with noncomorbid ADHD and 25 typically developing (TD) boys while they performed an emotional atten

SUBMITTER: Vetter NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6866282 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature