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ERP correlates of error monitoring in adult ADHD.

Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) ·Vol. 116 ·No. 3 ·2009-03-00 ·Pages 371-9

Wiersema JR, van der Meere JJ, Roeyers H

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate whether error monitoring difficulties persist in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using the event-related potential (ERP) methodology. Adults with ADHD and age-matched healthy controls executed a visual Go/No-Go task with 25% No-Go trials. Performance and ERP correlates of error monitoring were compared between groups. At the performance level no difference was noted between groups. However, exploring the error-related potentials revealed that the error-related negativity (ERN) was the same for both groups, but that adults with ADHD showed a smaller error positivity (Pe). Based on these findings, we conclude that adults with ADHD are normal in early automatic error detection, but are deviant in later conscious evaluation of the error. The findings add to the increasing evidence supporting disturbances in error monitoring in ADHD and show that these problems may persist in adulthood ADHD.

MeSH Terms
Adolescent Adult Analysis of Variance Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/physiopathology,psychology Brain Mapping/methods Case-Control Studies Electroencephalography Evoked Potentials Female Functional Laterality Humans Male Middle Aged Neuropsychological Tests Pattern Recognition, Visual Photic Stimulation/methods Psychomotor Performance Reaction Time Young Adult
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Wiersema J R
Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. [email protected]
van der Meere J J
Roeyers H
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)
Abbr.
J Neural Transm (Vienna)
ISSN
1435-1463
DOI
10.1007/s00702-008-0165-x
Email
[email protected]
Published
2009-03-00
Epub
2008-00-18
Pages
371-9
Language
English
Region
Austria
NLM ID
9702341
Subset
IM
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