Cognitive Control Deficits in Children With Subthreshold Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Zhuangyang Li²  Tingting Wu⁴  Caiqi Chen⁵  Xiqin Liu⁷  Yongling Pan⁸ 

[1] Beijing Key Lab of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China;Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China;Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China;Department of Psychology, Queens College, The City University of New York, New York, NY, United States;Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China;Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China;School of Foreign Languages, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China;School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China;

关键词: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;    subthreshold attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;    cognitive control;    cognitive control capacity;    attention functions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fnhum.2022.835544

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Subthreshold Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is defined as a neurobiological condition with some core inattentive or hyperactive/impulsive symptoms of ADHD which do not meet the full diagnosis clinically. Although it has been well documented that deficits in cognitive control, a high-level cognitive construct closely related to attention, are frequently found among children with ADHD, whether subthreshold ADHD is also associated with similar deficits remains unclear. In this study, we examined the attention functions and the cognitive control capacity (CCC) in children with ADHD (n = 39), those with subthreshold ADHD (n = 34), and typically developing peers (TD, n = 36). The results showed that the ADHD and subthreshold ADHD groups exhibited similar patterns of the impaired executive function of attention (revealed as an augment in flanker conflict effect) and reduced cognitive control capacity, and no significant difference was found between the two groups. These findings suggest that although children with subthreshold ADHD have not met the full criteria of ADHD, they showed reduced efficiency in cognitive control and attention function, similar to children with ADHD.

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