Association between Early Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Symptoms and Current Verbal and Visuo-Spatial Short-Term Memory

Autor/inn/en	Gau, Susan Shur-Fen; Chiang, Huey-Ling
Titel	Association between Early Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Symptoms and Current Verbal and Visuo-Spatial Short-Term Memory
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 34 (2013) 1, S.710-720 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2012.10.005
Schlagwörter	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Measures (Individuals); Severity (of Disability); Data Analysis; Patients; Clinical Diagnosis; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Visual Perception; Spatial Ability; Short Term Memory; Correlation; Verbal Ability; Adolescents; Predictor Variables; Siblings; Children; Mothers; Interviews; Foreign Countries; Taiwan; Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messdaten; Schweregrad; Auswertung; Patient; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Korrelation; Mündliche Leistung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Prädiktor; Sibling; Geschwister; Child; Kind; Kinder; Mother; Mutter; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland
Abstract	Deficits in short-term memory are common in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but their current ADHD symptoms cannot well predict their short-term performance. Taking a developmental perspective, we wanted to clarify the association between ADHD symptoms at early childhood and short-term memory in late childhood and adolescence. The participants included 401 patients with a clinical diagnosis of "DSM-IV" ADHD, 213 siblings, and 176 unaffected controls aged 8-17 years (mean age, 12.02 plus or minus 2.24). All participants and their mothers were interviewed using the Chinese Kiddie Epidemiologic version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia to obtain information about ADHD symptoms and other psychiatric disorders retrospectively, at an earlier age first, then currently. The participants were assessed with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--3rd edition, including Digit Span, and the Spatial working memory task of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery. Multi-level regression models were used for data analysis. Although crude analyses revealed that inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity symptoms significantly predicted deficits in short-term memory, only inattention symptoms had significant effects (all p less than 0.001) in a model that included all three ADHD symptoms. After further controlling for comorbidity, age of assessment, treatment with methylphenidate, and Full-scale IQ, the severity of childhood inattention symptoms was still significantly associated with worse verbal (p = 0.008) and spatial (p ranging from 0.017 to 0.002) short-term memory at the current assessment. Therefore, our findings suggest that earlier inattention symptoms are associated with impaired verbal and visuo-spatial short-term memory at a later development stage. Impaired short-term memory in adolescence can be detected earlier by screening for the severity of inattention in childhood. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10