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Hannah Scott; Erin K. Shoulberg; Allison Krasner; Marissa Dennis; Connie L. Tompkins; Alan L. Smith; Betsy Hoza – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objectives: There is a need to examine the utility of objective measures of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children. Objective measures of ADHD symptoms, such as physical activity, may provide a more nuanced assessment of behavior that can be used to augment traditional cross-informant ratings of ADHD symptoms by…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Individual Differences
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Chloe Hutt Vater; Maura DiSalvo; Alyssa Ehrlich; Haley Parker; Hannah O'Connor; Stephen V. Faraone; Joseph Biederman – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2024
Objective: To provide additional information about clinical features associated with adult ADHD in patients diagnosed in childhood compared to those first diagnosed in adulthood. Method: We stratified a sample of adults with ADHD into patients diagnosed in childhood versus adulthood and compared demographic and clinical characteristics. Results:…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Age Differences, Clinical Diagnosis, Adults
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Transler, Catherine; Eilander, Ans; Mitchell, Siobhan; van de Meer, Nelly – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2010
Objectives: To review the impact of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in reducing ADHD symptoms in children. Methods: Peer-reviewed experimental literature published from 1980 to Mai 2009 is consulted (Psychinfo, Medline, and resulting reference lists). Results: Placebo-controlled studies with ADHD or hyperactive children show no effects on…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorders, Neurology, Nutrition
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Crichton, Alexander – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2008
When any object of external sense, or of thought, occupies the mind in such a degree that a person does not receive a clear perception from any other one, he is said to attend to it. The principle that is excited in his mind by a perception, or thought, is commonly called the faculty of attention; a faculty which may be justly said to be the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Objectives, Individual Differences, Attention
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Graetz, Brian W.; Sawyer, Michael G.; Baghurst, Peter; Ettridge, Kerry – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2006
Objective: To examine whether ADHD gender patterns with respect to social-demographic characteristics, comorbidity, and impairment vary as a function of service use for emotional or behavioral problems. Method: Two hundred and seventy-nine males and 119 females meeting ADHD symptom criteria identified in a nationally representative sample of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Social Influences
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Marczinski, Cecile A. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2005
The research in this article focuses on the relation between self-report of attention deficit disorder (ADD) symptoms and performance on a two-alternative forced-choice task that measures repetition effects. The ADD/Hyperactive Adolescent Self-Report Scale--Short Form is administered to college students after they completed the repetition effects…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Familiarity, Foreign Countries, Visual Stimuli