Memory and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder / Memória e transtorno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade

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2007

RESUMO

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common psychiatric disorder among children and teenagers, with a prevalence of 6%. ADHD disorder has three subtypes: inattentive (ADHDI), hyperactive (ADHDH) and combined (ADHDC). The symptoms include cognitive, behavioral, affective, and social disturbances. Memory and attention deficits are the cognitive problems that frequently attend this disorder. Long and short-term memory were assessed in 44 children and teenagers with ADHD (ADHDD, n=17; ADADH, n=11 ;ADHDC, n=16; age: 12,8 y; 6,1 years of education) and 44 healthy participants (Control group, age: 12,11; 6,4 years of education). An experiment was developed to investigate memory (MEMO). The experiment consisted of 64 figures in 4 different presentations. Each presentation had 16 figures designed to measure immediate and delayed recall in four conditions: serial categorizable memory, grouped categorizable memory, serial non-categorizable memory, and grouped non-categorizable memory. Intelligence and attention were also assessed. The recall of ADHDD and ADHDC groups was worse in the categorizable and non-categorizable serial conditions; the performance of all three ADHD groups was worse than that of the control group with respect to the two grouped conditions, but ADHDD and ADHDC were the worst. These results suggest memory deficit for long and short-term memory on ADHD independent of memory strategies contribution.

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atenção neuropsychology attention neuropsicologia transtorno da falta de atenção com hiperatividade memória attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity memory

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