Working Memory Training in Young ADHD Children

Radboud University Medical Center

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

Treatments

Behavioral: Control version of Cogmed working memory training

Behavioral: Cogmed Working memory training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00819611

RN000142

WM01022009

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether working memory training improves behavioral symptoms, neurocognitive performance, and neural functioning in young children with ADHD.

Enrollment

51 patients

Sex

All

Ages

54 to 88 months old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age between 4 years/6 months and 7 years/4 months
Diagnosis ADHD, classified by the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2000)
A full scale IQ >= 80
Psychopharmaca- naïve or -free
Access to a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP with internet connection and speakers at home

Exclusion criteria

Currently intensive (i.e. weekly) individual or group psychotherapy
Regular use of medication
Diagnosis of one or more of the following comorbid psychiatric disorders: Major depression, Bipolar disorder, Psychotic disorder, Chronically motor tic disorder or Gilles de la Tourette, Conduct disorder, any other autism spectrum disorder except for Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), Eating disorders, Anxiety disorders
Neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy) currently or in the past
Cardiovascular disease currently or in the past
Serious motor or perceptual handicap
Participation in another clinical trial simultaneously
Educational level and/ or socio-economic situation that makes it unlikely for the family to fulfil this study