Cognitive Effects of Psychostimulant Medication in Hyperactive Children

Overview

Journal Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

Specialties Pediatrics
Psychiatry

Date 1991 Jan 1

PMID 1686856

Citations 5

Authors

J Everett

J Thomas

F Cote

J Levesque

D Michaud

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Abstract

Hyperactive and normal children were given a test of selective attention (Stroop test) and a neurocognitive test sensitive to a functional deficit of prefrontal cortex (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test). Hyperactive children showed significant deficits on both measures. After a year of psychostimulant medication, the hyperactive children all showed clinical and neurocognitive improvement, but continued to show a selective attention deficit compared with normal children. The results indicate a dissociation between the cognitive processes measured by the Wisconsin test and selective attention as measured by the Stroop, and that the selective attention deficit is more resistant to psychostimulant intervention.

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