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“Arousal” or “Activation” Dysfunction in the Frontal Region of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from an Electroencephalogram Study

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The goal of the present study is to test whether there is “Arousal” or “Activation” Dysfunction in the frontal region of children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). The sample consists of 62 children (31 with AD/HD and 31 non-AD/HD children as controls) who were drawn from an elementary school. Patterns of cortical activity were measured using EEG under three conditions: Eyes-Closed (EC), Eyes-Opened (EO) resting and Mental Arithmetic Task (MAT) conditions, and compared according to AD/HD diagnostic status. Significant main effects for all frequency bands across conditions were found. The AD/HD group showed less elevation of beta relative power than controls suggesting deficiency of cortical activation in the AD/HD group. AD/HD group showed significantly elevated alpha power in eyes-opened resting state. Theta/beta ratio was less reduced for AD/HD than for controls when going from EC to EO to MAT state. The implications of the results were discussed.

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  3. North College of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Langfang, China

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Wang, L., Kong, J., Luo, J., Gao, W., Guo, X. (2012). “Arousal” or “Activation” Dysfunction in the Frontal Region of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from an Electroencephalogram Study. In: Zhang, H., Hussain, A., Liu, D., Wang, Z. (eds) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31561-9_17

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