Aberrant Spatial and Temporal Prefrontal Activation Patterns in Medication-Naïve Adults with ADHD

• Published in: Frontiers in psychiatry Vol. 8; p. 274
• Main Authors: Yamagata, Bun, Takei, Yuichi, Itahashi, Takashi, Pu, Shenghong, Hirano, Jinichi, Mimura, Masaru, Iwanami, Akira
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 05.12.2017
• Subjects: attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); cluster-based non-parametric randomization test; medication-naïve; near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); neuroimaging; Psychiatry; near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); medication-naïve; cluster-based non-parametric randomization test; neuroimaging

Previous near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) studies using a verbal fluency task (VFT) have consistently reported that adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) showed significantly smaller oxygenated-hemoglobin [oxy-Hb] activations in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) compared to those in...