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Behavior in Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and in Healthy Volunteers

11 december 2019 bijgewerkt door: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

A Behavioral and Functional Neuroimaging Study of Inhibitory Motor Control

The purpose of this study is to determine how the brain controls motor activity in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The inability to control one s behavior is an important symptom of many psychiatric illnesses. The stop signal paradigm which involves withholding a motor response to a go signal, has proved useful in assessing uncontrolled behavior in children with ADHD and other disorders. This study will use a stop signal paradigm in order to evaluate the ability of children with and without ADHD to control their motor behavior. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan will be used to study how the brain works during specific activities.

This study will evaluate the stop signal paradigm in three groups of people: healthy children, children with ADHD, and healthy adults. This study comprises two sub-studies: a behavioral study in which participants perform simple activities and an MRI study.

Participants will be asked to stop any over-the-counter medication 5 days before entering the behavioral or MRI study. Children with ADHD will be asked to stop taking medication for ADHD 72 hours before the study. All participants will have a medical history and a psychiatric evaluation (for children, both parents and children provide information for the assessment). Participants in the MRI study will also have physical examinations and blood and urine tests. All children will undergo intelligence tests; and those with ADHD will have tests to confirm the diagnosis. The parents of child participants will complete an autism screening questionnaire.

Studie Overzicht

Toestand

Voltooid

Conditie

Aandachtstekortstoornis met hyperactiviteit

Gedetailleerde beschrijving

The inability to exert appropriate inhibitory control over one's behavior is an important symptom of many psychiatric illnesses. The stop signal paradigm, which involves withholding a prepotent motor response to a signal, has proved useful in assessing this deficit in children with a range of disorders, particularly attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In order to adapt the paradigm for use in fMRI studies, it is important to address two methodological issues: 1) the substitution of a visual stop signal for the more commonly-employed auditory stop signal, and 2) the fact that, on the traditional stop task (in which the subject withholds a motor response to the stop signal), correct trials do not involve a motor response whereas incorrect trials do. The latter problem can be addressed using the stop-change task (in which the subject executes alternative motor responses to the stop and go signals). The first aim of this protocol is to compare behavioral data from the stop and stop-change tasks in control adults, control children, and children with ADHD. These data will be used to test the hypotheses that, on each of these paradigms, children with ADHD will show an inhibitory deficit compared to control children, and control children will show an inhibitory deficit compared to control adults. The second aim of the protocol is to conduct a pilot fMRI study of the stop and stop-change tasks in control adults. The study has an event-related design and will test the hypotheses that ventral prefrontal activation will be greater during successful than unsuccessful stop (or stop-change) trials, and that stop and stop-change trials will be associated with more anterior cingulate and right inferior frontal activation than will go trials.

Studietype

Observationeel

Inschrijving (Werkelijk)

189

Contacten en locaties

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Studie Locaties

Verenigde Staten
- Maryland
  - Bethesda, Maryland, Verenigde Staten, 20892
    - National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

Deelname Criteria

Onderzoekers zoeken naar mensen die aan een bepaalde beschrijving voldoen, de zogenaamde geschiktheidscriteria. Enkele voorbeelden van deze criteria zijn iemands algemene gezondheidstoestand of eerdere behandelingen.

Geschiktheidscriteria

Leeftijden die in aanmerking komen voor studie

8 jaar tot 17 jaar (Kind)

Accepteert gezonde vrijwilligers

Nee

Geslachten die in aanmerking komen voor studie

Allemaal

Beschrijving

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

CONTROL SUBJECTS:

Male and female subjects in two age cohorts will be recruited: 7-16 and 18-45 years. Subjects must be free from any current or past psychopathology and be medication-free. The 7-16 year olds will be gender matched to the ADHD subjects.

ADHD SUBJECTS:

Male and female subjects aged 7-16 who currently meet DSM-IV criteria for ADHD. The diagnosis will be made on the basis of a K-SADS-PL interview with the parent and a t score greater than 65 on the hyperactivity-impulsivity subscale of the Connors Teacher Scale. With the exception of symptoms and signs attributable to the ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, the Learning, Communication Disorders, Elimination Disorders, and Separation or Social Anxiety Disorders, subjects must be free from any current or past psychopathology.

fMRI STUDY:

Subjects aged 8-45 years will be recruited. Otherwise the same as for the behavioral study above for healthy volunteers and ADHD participants.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

CONTROL SUBJECTS:

I.Q. less than 80; pregnancy ; ongoing medical illness; neurological disorder (including seizures); meeting past or present criteria for any diagnosis on the K-SADS-PL (children and adolescents) or SCID (adults).

ADHD SUBJECTS:

I.Q. less than 80; pregnancy; ongoing medical illness or neurological disorder other than ADHD; contraindication to discontinuing medication for 72 hours; any other psychiatric disorder that is sufficiently severe to require specific treatment, with the exception of Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and the Learning, Communication, and Elimination Disorders, Separation Anxiety Disorder or Social Anxiety Disorder. Explicit exclusions include Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Tourette's syndrome, conduct disorder, and mood or Generalized anxiety disorders.

fMRI STUDY:

I.Q. less than 80; pregnancy; ongoing medical illness; neurological disorder (including seizures); meeting past or present criteria for any diagnosis on SCID; or KSADS except for ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, the Learning, Communication Disorders, Elimination Disorders, and Separation or Social Anxiety Disorders; any metallic objects in the body that would constitute a contraindication to an fMRI scan.

Studie plan

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Sponsor

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

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Studie record data

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Bestudeer belangrijke data

Studie start

7 november 2001

Studie voltooiing

9 oktober 2018

Studieregistratiedata

Eerst ingediend

9 november 2001

Eerst ingediend dat voldeed aan de QC-criteria

9 november 2001

Eerst geplaatst (Schatting)

12 november 2001

Updates van studierecords

Laatste update geplaatst (Werkelijk)

12 december 2019

Laatste update ingediend die voldeed aan QC-criteria

11 december 2019

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