Tucha, Lara and Fuermaier, Anselm B. M. and Koerts, Janneke and Buggenthin, Rieka and Aschenbrenner, Steffen and Weisbrod, Matthias and Thome, Johannes and Lange, Klaus W. and Tucha, Oliver (2017) Sustained attention in adult ADHD: time-on-task effects of various measures of attention. JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION, 124. S39-S53. ISSN 0300-9564, 1435-1463
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Neuropsychological research on adults with ADHD showed deficits in various aspects of attention. However, the majority of studies failed to explore the change of performance over time, so-called time-on-task effects. As a consequence, little is known about sustained attention performance of adults with ADHD. The aim of the present study was therefore to test the hypothesis of sustained attention deficits of adults with ADHD. Twenty-nine adults with ADHD and 30 healthy individuals were assessed on four 20-min tests of sustained attention, measuring alertness, selective attention, divided attention and flexibility. The deterioration of performance over time (time-on-task effects) was compared between patients with ADHD and healthy individuals to conclude on sustained attention performance. Compared to healthy individuals, patients with ADHD showed significant deficits of medium size in selective attention and divided attention. Furthermore, medium sustained attention deficits was observed in measures of alertness, selective attention and divided attention. This study supports the notion of sustained attention deficits of adults with ADHD.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE; PROSPECTIVE MEMORY; FOCUSED ATTENTION; CHILDREN; VIGILANCE; METAANALYSIS; SUBTYPES; SAMPLE; Adult ADHD; Cognition; Neuropsychological assessment; Attention; Sustained attention; Time-on-task effects |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie III (Biologische, Klinische und Rehabilitationspsychologie) - Prof. Dr. Klaus W. Lange |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:01 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2019 14:00 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/491 |
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