Neuropsychological differences between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and control children and adolescents referred for academic impairment Diferenças neuropsicológicas entre crianças e adolescentes portadores de transtorno da falta de atenção com hiperatividade e controles encaminhados por comprometimento acadêmico

OBJECTIVE: To compare the performances of children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with a group of control comparison subjects, both taken from a large clinical sample, using some of the most widely employed attention-based Brazilian tests. METHOD: The performances of 1...

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Main Authors: Gabriel Coutinho, Paulo Mattos, Leandro F. Malloy-Diniz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2009-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462009000200011