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PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING
Volume 138, Issue 2, Pages 157-169Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2004.12.002
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event-related potentials; ERP; NoGo anteriorisation; NGA; response inhibition; anterior cingulate
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The aim of the present study was to investigate prefrontal brain function and cognitive response control in patients with personality disorders who either suffered or did not suffer from psychopathology related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during childhood. For this purpose, 36 psychiatric out-patients with personality disorders-24 of whom showed ADHD-related psychopathology during childhood assessed by the German short form of the Wender Utah Rating Scale-and 24 healthy controls were investigated electrophysiologically by means of a cued Go-NoGo task (Continuous Performance Test). Topographical analyses were conducted to individually quantify the NoGo anteriorisation (NGA), a neurophysiological correlate of prefrontal response control that has been suggested to reflect activation of the anterior cingulate cortex. ADHD patients exhibited a significantly reduced mean NGA and diminished amplitudes of the Global Field Power, as well as a reduced increase of fronto-central P300 amplitudes, in NoGo-trials compared with the healthy controls, whereas patients with personality disorders alone did not differ from the control group in any of the electrophysiological parameters. The results indicate that ADHD-related psychopathology is associated with prefrontal brain dysfunction, probably related to processes of response inhibition and/or cognitive response control. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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