Emotion-Cognition Interactions in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Increased Early Attention Capture and Weakened Attentional Control in Emotional Contexts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emotion dysregulation is a key dimensional trait in psychopathology. It is of particular interest in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) because individual differences in emotion dysregulation predict impairment. Despite growing recognition of its importance, an understanding of emotional functioning in ADHD needs to be better integrated with the well-known nonemotional attentional impairments in the disorder. Here, we assess differences in early, reactive and later, regulatory attention to emotional stimuli, as well as how impairments in attentional control to nonemotional stimuli are affected under different emotional contexts.

Methods

In all, 130 adolescents (n_ADHD = 61) completed an emotional go/no-go task while 32-channel electroencepha

SUBMITTER: Karalunas SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7224233 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature