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Autonomic arousal profiles in adolescents and young adults with ADHD as a function of recording context

Du Rietz, E; James, S-N; Banaschewski, T; Brandeis, D; Asherson, P; Kuntsi, J; (2019) Autonomic arousal profiles in adolescents and young adults with ADHD as a function of recording context. Psychiatry Research , 275 pp. 212-220. 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.03.039. Green open access

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Abstract

A recent study (James et al. 2016) found that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was associated with hypo-arousal, indexed by low electrodermal activity, during a low-demand reaction-time task, which normalized in a fast-incentive condition. We now investigate if (1) autonomic arousal in individuals with ADHD changes over a long testing session and (2) across time, to clarify if arousal profiles are context-dependent. We also examine (3) how autonomic arousal relates to each ADHD symptom domain, and specificity of arousal profiles to ADHD, by controlling for oppositional defiant/conduct disorder (ODD/CD) symptoms. Skin conductance level and non-specific fluctuations were measured during four successive resting-state and cognitive conditions (Resting-state time 1, Continuous Performance Task, Fast Task: Baseline and Fast-Incentive conditions, Resting-state time 2) from 71 adolescents/young adults with ADHD and 140 controls. Lower arousal was observed in individuals with ADHD only during a slow, low-demanding task, and more fluctuating arousal was observed towards the end of assessment. Both inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive symptoms were associated with arousal levels and fluctuations, independently from ODD/CD. Overall, we extend previous findings showing that under-arousal, but also fluctuating arousal, are context-specific rather than stable impairments in ADHD.

Type: Article
Title: Autonomic arousal profiles in adolescents and young adults with ADHD as a function of recording context
Location: Ireland
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.03.039
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.03.039
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).
Keywords: ADHD, Electrodermal activity, Phasic arousal, Skin conductance, Tonic arousal
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072135
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