Unimpaired social cognition in adult patients with ADHD: brain volumetric and behavioral results.

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to investigate whether adult patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show deficits in social cognition and to identify the structural neural correlates of social cognitive skills in ADHD. Twenty-six adult patients with ADHD and 26 matched healthy control participants performed the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition and underwent a structural magnetic resonance imaging scan. We compared theory of mind (ToM) performance between ADHD patients and healthy controls. Using voxel-based morphometry, we further compared gray matter volumes in regions that are critical for social cognition between the two groups and examined whether ToM performance was correlated with brain morphometry measures. We did not observe any between-group differences

SUBMITTER: Mehren A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8599175 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature