How specific is a deficit of executive functioning for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?

By J. Sergeant, H. Geurts, J. Oosterlaan. Behavioural Brain Research, 2002

841 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. B. Casey
2. Edmund Sonuga-Barke
3. E. Hill
4. Larry J. Seidman
5. Eve M. Valera
6. J. Sergeant
7. G. Bush
8. F. Happé

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. E. Hill
2. Edmund Sonuga-Barke
3. G. Bush
4. Larry J. Seidman
5. Eve M. Valera
6. J. Sergeant
7. Stephen Houghton
8. B. Casey

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Edmund Sonuga-Barke
2. E. Hill
3. Larry J. Seidman
4. Eve M. Valera
5. J. Sergeant
6. G. Bush
7. F. Happé
8. L. Thorell

Citations in the corpus

• Executive dysfunction in autism. (2004, background): “However studies have generally reported a specific pattern of executive dysfunction that distinguishes autism from such other disorders including ADHD, Tourette syndome and conduct disorder [16,21, 22 ].”
• Differential patterns of striatal activation in young children with and without ADHD. (2003, background): “Cognitive functioning is mildly impaired in this disorder (for review, see Sergeant et al [2002] ).”
• How specific are executive functioning deficits in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism? (2004, background): “The endeavour to identify a deficit that discriminates ADHD from autism requires that the groups chosen for study be clinically rigorously defined (Sergeant et al., 2002).”
• Executive Functioning Deficits in Relation to Symptoms of ADHD and/or ODD in Preschool Children. (2006, background): “Even though several other researchers have emphasized the importance of controlling for comorbidity dimensionally (e.g. Nigg, 2001; Sergeant et al., 2002), only a few empirical studies have made such a control and none of these have included participants below schoolage.”
• Evaluating the theory of executive dysfunction in autism (2004, background): “A recent selective review of literature considering whether executive function deficits are specific to ADHD, in which studies of ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), and autism are compared, suggests that while these disorders are all associated with executive function ”
• Performance and Private Speech of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder While Taking the Tower of Hanoi Test: Effects of Depth of Search, Diagnostic Subtype, and Methylphenidate (2005, background): “The Tower of Hanoi (TOH) is a well-established test of executive functions, processes which have been proposed as central to the cognitive deficits of ADHD (Barkley, 1997; Pennington & Ozonoff, 1996; Sergeant, Geurts, & Oosterlaan, 2002 ).”
• European clinical guidelines for hyperkinetic disorder – first upgrade (2004, background): “Six studies contrasted ADHD children with controls on letter fluency and found poorer performance in ADHD compared with controls (see Sergeant et al. 2002).”
• Executive function deficits in autism spectrum disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: examining profiles across domains and ages. (2006, background): “Evidence for autism-related deficits in the third aspect of EF, response inhibition, is more equivocal—while this is perhaps the area of most striking impairment in ADHD (Sergeant et al., 2002).”
• Executive Functions and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Implications of two conflicting views (2006, background): “The article concluded: “executive function specificity for ADHD remains to be established” ( Sergeant, Guerts, & Oosterlaan, 2002, p. 24 ).”