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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 64, Issue 7, Pages 615-625Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.12.016
Keywords
action monitoring; ADHD; endophenotype; error negativity; error positivity; N2
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [32-109591]
- National Institute of Mental Health [R01MH062873]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH062873] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a very common and highly heritable child psychiatric disorder associated with dysfunctions in fronto-striatal networks that control attention and response organization. The aim of this study was to investigate whether features of action monitoring related to dopaminergic functions represent endophenotypes that are brain functions on the pathway from genes and environmental risk factors to behavior. Methods: Action monitoring and error processing as indicated by behavioral and electrophysiological parameters during a flanker task were examined in boys with ADHD combined type according to DSM-IV (n = 68), their nonaffected siblings (n = 18), and healthy control subjects with no known family history of ADHD (n = 22). Results: Boys with ADHD displayed slower and more variable reaction-times. Error negativity (Ne) was smaller in boys with ADHDcompared with healthy control subjects, whereas nonaffected siblings displayed intermediate amplitudes following a linear model predicted by genetic concordance. The three groups did not differ on error positivity (Pe). The N2 amplitude enhancement due to conflict (incongruent flankers) was reduced in the ADHD group. Nonaffected siblings also displayed intermediate N2 enhancement. Conclusions: Converging evidence from behavioral and event-related potential findings suggests that action monitoring and initial error processing, both related to dopaminergically modulated functions of anterior cingulate cortex, might be an endophenotype related to ADHD.
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