A Verbal Planning Impairment in Adult ADHD Indexed by Script Generation Tasks

Autor/inn/en	Desjardins, Catherine; Scherzer, Peter; Braun, Claude M. J.; Godbout, Lucie; Poissant, Helene
Titel	A Verbal Planning Impairment in Adult ADHD Indexed by Script Generation Tasks
Quelle	In: Journal of Attention Disorders, 14 (2010) 3, S.220-231 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1087-0547
DOI	10.1177/1087054709347167
Schlagwörter	Neurological Impairments; Memory; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Adults; Nonverbal Ability; Cognitive Processes; Correlation; Severity (of Disability); Neuropsychology; Measures (Individuals); Clinics; Mental Disorders; Clinical Diagnosis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Gedächtnis; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Korrelation; Schweregrad; Neuropsychologie; Messdaten; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit
Abstract	Objective: Though juvenile and adult ADHD cases are well known to have a nonverbal planning impairment, a verbal-planning impairment has been demonstrated only in juvenile ADHD. The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether a verbal planning impairment also characterizes adult ADHD. Methods: A cohort of 30 adult ADHD clients of a university psychological clinic are compared to 30 age-, education-, gender-, and IQ-matched persons recruited from the general population who did not have ADHD. The dependent measure is a set of 6 paper/pencil 10-item script generation tasks. Results: The findings reveal that the ADHD cohort was significantly impaired on the script task and the script task correlated significantly with severity of ADHD (CAARS index + WURS), whereas several neuropsychological measures of executive function (Stroop, COWA, Rey's Complex Figure, D2, CVLT, CPT-II) did not. Findings further showed that the script measure was weakly correlated with the other established neuropsychological measures of executive function (r less than 0.46, shared variance of less than 21%). Conclusions: On the basis of the study findings, it is concluded that verbal planning measured with script generation tasks is distinctly impaired in clinically referred adult ADHD. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10