Causal Models of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: From Common Simple Deficits to Multiple Developmental Pathways

2004/11/12 by Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke, Edmund Sonuga‐Barke · 965 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder #Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Context (archaeology) #Dopamine #Dopaminergic #Executive functions #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Nucleus accumbens #Psychiatry #Psychology #Striatum

paper · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.09.008

published in Biological Psychiatry 57(11), 1231-1238 (Elsevier BV)

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