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Hyperactivity in Boys with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Ubiquitous Core Symptom or Manifestation of Working Memory Deficits?

Overview of attention for article published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, December 2008
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Title
Hyperactivity in Boys with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Ubiquitous Core Symptom or Manifestation of Working Memory Deficits?
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Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, December 2008
DOI 10.1007/s10802-008-9287-8
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Mark D. Rapport, Jennifer Bolden, Michael J. Kofler, Dustin E. Sarver, Joseph S. Raiker, R. Matt Alderson

Abstract

Hyperactivity is currently considered a core and ubiquitous feature of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); however, an alternative model challenges this premise and hypothesizes a functional relationship between working memory (WM) and activity level. The current study investigated whether children's activity level is functionally related to WM demands associated with the domain-general central executive and subsidiary storage/rehearsal components using tasks based on Baddeley's (Working memory, thought, and action. New York: Oxford University Press 2007) WM model. Activity level was objectively measured 16 times per second using wrist- and ankle-worn actigraphs while 23 boys between 8 and 12 years of age completed control tasks and visuospatial/phonological WM tasks of increasing memory demands. All children exhibited significantly higher activity rates under all WM relative to control conditions, and children with ADHD (n = 12) moved significantly more than typically developing children (n = 11) under all conditions. Activity level in all children was associated with central executive but not storage/rehearsal functioning, and higher activity rates exhibited by children with ADHD under control conditions were fully attenuated by removing variance directly related to central executive processes.

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Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 222 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 49 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 19%
Student > Bachelor 20 9%
Researcher 19 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 8%
Other 40 18%
Unknown 38 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 102 45%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 8%
Social Sciences 9 4%
Neuroscience 9 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Other 36 16%
Unknown 47 21%
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#197
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#9,518
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#2
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