Visual processing of biological motion in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder : an event related potential-study

  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is often accompanied by problems in social behaviour, which are sometimes similar to some symptoms of autism-spectrum disorders (ASD). However, neuronal mechanisms of ASD-like deficits in ADHD have rarely been studied. The processing of biological motion–recently discussed as a marker of social cognition–was found to be disrupted in ASD in several studies. Thus in the present study we tested if biological motion processing is disrupted in ADHD. We used 64-channel EEG and spatio-temporal source analysis to assess event-related potentials associated with human motion processing in 21 children and adolescents with ADHD and 21 matched typically developing controls. On the behavioural level, all subjects were able to differentiate between human and scrambled motion. But in response to both scrambled and biological motion, the N200 amplitude was decreased in subjects with ADHD. After a spatio-temporal dipole analysis, a human motion specific activation was observable in occipital-temporal regions with a reduced and more diffuse activation in ADHD subjects. These results point towards neuronal determined alterations in the processing of biological motion in ADHD.

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Author:Anne Kröger, Katharina Hof, Christoph Krick, Michael Siniatchkin, Tomasz Antoni JarczokORCiDGND, Christine M. FreitagORCiDGND, Stephan Bender
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-330204
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088585
ISSN:1932-6203
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24520402
Parent Title (English):PLoS One
Publisher:PLoS
Place of publication:Lawrence, Kan.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/02/10
Date of first Publication:2014/02/10
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/02/19
Volume:9
Issue:(2):e88585
Page Number:11
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Copyright: © 2014 Kröger et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
HeBIS-PPN:364114665
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0