Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Volume 7 Issue 2
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- Pages.179-189
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- 1996
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- 2233-9183(eISSN)
A STUDY ON THE EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS BETWEEN THE PATIENTS WITH ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AND NORMAL CHILDREN
주의력결핍 ${\cdot}$ 과잉운동장애 아동과 정상아동간의 사건관련전위 소견의 비교 연구
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Cho, Soo-Churl
(Department of Child Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
- Shin, Sung-Woong (Department of Psychiatry, National Naju Mental Hospital)
- Published : 1996.12.31
Abstract
Objective : This study was conducted to find out the electrophysiological abnormalities of the patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder(abbr. ADHD) through identifying the profiles of the event-related potentials. Methods : Through measuring event-related potentials of 20 patients with ADHD and 16 normal control children using Oddball paradigm, we evaluated the latencies and amplitudes of each wave form. Results : In the group older than 9 years old, the latencies that reflect selective attention and discriminative capacity of the patients with ADHD were significantly longer than those of normal controls, which suggests that patients with ADHD be more distractible to non-significant stimuli and that they be in lark of sustained attention and discriminative ability. Conclusions : We concluded that the patients with ADHD are more distractible to trivial stimuli than normal children but they lack discriminative, sustained ability of attention.
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