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Psychiatry and Mental health Audiology The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

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Anxiety modulates the relation between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder severity and working memory-related brain activity

Dennis van der Meer, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Daan van Rooij, Anderson M. Winkler, Hanneke van Ewijk, Dirk J. Heslenfeld, et al.
The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry Summary & key facts 2017 20 citations

Researchers scanned the brains of 371 adolescents and young adults (average age 17.1) while they did a visuospatial working memory task. They found that anxiety changed the link between how severe a person’s ADHD symptoms were and brain activity. Specifically, higher anxiety was linked with lower activity in the cerebellum…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Cognitive Functions and Memory Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
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