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Sustained Attention, Activation and MPH in ADHD: A Research Note
Author(s) -
Meere Jaap,
Shalev Ruth,
Börger Norbert,
GrossTsur Varda
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb02323.x
Subject(s) - psychology , slowness , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , developmental psychology , continuous performance task , audiology , attention deficit , task (project management) , clinical psychology , cognition , psychiatry , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , management
Sustained attention was studied in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and normal controls using a continuous performance task with slow presentation of stimuli and carried out with an experimenter‐present and absent condition. Children with ADHD were slower than controls, with performance deteriorating over lime, particularly in the experimenter‐absent condition. Both the slowness and deterioration normalized when the children received MPH. Hence the rate of stimuli presentation and the presence or absence of experimenter are both crucial factors in the performance of children with ADHD. MPH is able to ameliorate the performance decrement seen tinder these conditions.