Are there cognitive subtypes in adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder?
Gansler DA ; Fucetola R ; Krengel M ; Stetson S ; Zimering R ; Makary C Department of Psychiatry, Boston Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA. There has been increasing knowledge of the treatment, diagnosis, and demographics of adults with residual attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, less is known about the neuropsychological functioning in adults with residual ADHD. In comparing the clinical neuropsychological test performance of a group of adult clinic patients with residual ADHD (N = 30) with that of normal controls (N = 10), we found the patients performed worse on the Trail Making Test, a visual continuous performance test, and the “Brown-Peterson” Auditory Consonant Trigrams Test, but not on any other neuropsychological measures. This pattern indicated a deficit in the area of executive control type functioning, a functional deficit that could be linked to dysregulation of frontal lobe bra
