A Study on the Inter-Hemispheric Alpha Ratio in Kids With ADHD (SHARK)

Radboud University Medical Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

ADHD

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01932398

3016038.01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigate the hypothesis that children with ADHD have difficulty with the allocation of visio-spatial attention related to an inability to control posterior alpha brain oscillations. A paradigm will be used in which the aim is to address covert attention as similar recent studies did in adults with ADHD.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

84 to 95 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

For both groups

Age between 7 and 10 years of age.
Estimated IQ above 80.
Psychopharmaca- naïve or -free.

For the ADHD-group - A diagnosis of ADHD, classified by the DSM-IV.

Exclusion criteria

(Co-morbid) psychiatric disorder (major depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, chronically motor tic disorder or Gilles de la Tourette, Conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, eating disorder, anxiety disorder).
Neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy) currently or in the past.
Cardiovascular disease currently or in the past.
Serious motor or perceptual handicap.

For the no ADHD-group