EEG Power Spectral Slope differs by ADHD status and stimulant medication exposure in early childhood.

By M. M. Robertson, Sarah Furlong, Bradley Voytek, Thomas Donoghue, Charlotte A. Boettiger, Margaret A Sheridan. 2019

Subfields: Developmental Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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• The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain (2024, unknown): “…diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who are medication-naive exhibit steeper slopes than their typically developing counterparts 84 , as do individuals with schizophrenia 85,86 , suggesting that even greater reductions in neural noise in childhood results in inefficient neural…”
• Non-Neural Sources Systematically Impact Aperiodic EEG Activity (2026, unknown): “…remarkable sensitivity to aging 12 – 14 , task-related neural dynamics 15 – 17 , and diverse clinical conditions, showing alterations in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) 18,19 , schizophrenia 20,21 , attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 22,23 , and neurodegenerative diseases 24 – 26 .”
• Relating ADHD to the aperiodic component of the EEG signal in both males and females across development (2026, unknown): “As with most previous studies (e.g., Karalunas et al., 2022; Ostlund et al., 2021; 2023; Robertson et al., 2019) we used a cross-sectional, rather than longitudinal, design, and so we cannot rule out the possibility that variability between participants obscured effects.”
• Aperiodic parameters of the fMRI power spectrum associate with preterm birth and neonatal age (2026, unknown): “I balance (exponent) in ADHD children 57 .”
• Longitudinal trajectories of aperiodic EEG activity in early to middle childhood (2024, background): “Robertson et al. (2019) further posit that there may be a range of cognitively optimal slopes at different developmental stages.”
• Alterations in aperiodic and periodic EEG activity in young children with Down syndrome (2024, unknown): “…disorders including Fragile X Syndrome (Wilkinson and Nelson, 2021), neurofibromatosis type 1 (Carter Leno et al., 2022), and ADHD (Robertson et al., 2019; Ostlund et al., 2021), and changes in aperiodic slope have been associated with behavioral inhibition (Ostlund et al., 2022),…”
• Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research (2024, background): “…aperiodic activity has been shown to better explain individual differences in theta/beta ratio (Donoghue, Dominguez, et al., 2020) and predict ADHD status in children (Robertson et al., 2019; see also Kar-alunas et al., 2022; Ostlund et al., 2021) than does power within individual frequency bands.”
• Alterations in aperiodic and periodic EEG activity in young children with Down syndrome (2024, unknown): “…disorders including Fragile X Syndrome (Wilkinson and Nelson, 2021), neurofibromatosis type 1 (Carter Leno et al., 2022), and ADHD (Robertson et al., 2019; Ostlund et al., 2021), and changes in aperiodic slope have been associated with behavioral inhibition (Ostlund et al., 2022),…”
• Aperiodic and Hurst EEG exponents across early human brain development: A systematic review (2024, background): “The majority of 1/ f β studies used the FOOOF package (22/42), and thus, for brevity, studies should be assumed to use FOOOF unless otherwise stated.”
• Evaluating early EEG correlates of restricted and repetitive behaviors for toddlers with or without autism (2024, unknown): “This includes ASD [36], as well as attention de�cit/hyperactivity disorder [37, 38], neuro�bromatosis type 1(NF1) [39], schizophrenia; [40], and Fragile X Syndrome [41].”
• Periodic and Aperiodic EEG Features as Potential Markers of Developmental Dyslexia (2023, background): “In particular, alterations of the aperiodic activity were found for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) [46], ASD [47] and Schizophrenia [48], possibly representing an additional neural marker with respect to the oscillatory ones.”
• Age-related trends in aperiodic EEG activity and alpha oscillations during early- to middle-childhood (2023, background): “, 2020) and in ADHD (Mamiya, Arnett, & Stein., 2021; Robertson et al., 2019) when compared to typically developing controls.”