Facial emotion recognition impairment predicts social and emotional problems in children with (subthreshold) ADHD.

ABSTRACT: Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms often experience social and emotional problems. Impaired facial emotion recognition has been suggested as a possible underlying mechanism, although impairments may depend on the type and intensity of emotions. We investigated facial emotion recognition in children with (subthreshold) ADHD and controls using a novel task with children's faces of emotional expressions varying in type and intensity. We further investigated associations between emotion recognition accuracy and social and emotional problems in the ADHD group. 83 children displaying ADHD symptoms and 30 controls (6-12 years) completed the Morphed Facial Emotion Recognition Task (MFERT). The MFERT assesses emotion recognition accuracy on four emotions using fi

SUBMITTER: Staff AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9142461 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature