To look at the relative risk of adult criminal convictions of children with ADHD compared with the rate in the general population
What is the purpose of the ADHD Criminality Study?
100
Behavioral, Medical, Family Intervention
What is a type of intervention to help treat ADHD?
100
Glutamate,Glutamine,N-acetyl aspartate, Choline,
What are chemicals which are elevated in patients with ADHD?
100
The main purpose of the criminality article
What is "to find the correlation between childhood diagnosis of ADHD and criminality later in life"?
200
True or False? ADHD can persist into adulthood?
What is true?
200
Previous Studies described about high prevalence of ADHD in boys, but none with girls.
What is one reason they conducted the experiment?
200
A treatment used to treat ADHD, associated with long-term symptom improvement in adults with ADHD.
What is methylphenidate?
200
This chemical increases in both frontal areas.
What is Glutamate/Glutamine?
200
Two of the 8 specific conviction groups in the criminality study.
What is conviction under criminal code, violent convictions, sexual offences, interpersonal offences, property offences, weapons code, euphoriant code, alcohol or other drugs?
300
True or False? ADHD can be treated with stimulants.
What is True?
300
Assault
What was the most violent offense in the experiment?
300
Dopamine
Which neurotransmitter is increased in the Methylphenidate treatment(Associated with the pleasure system)?
300
These chemicals increased in the right frontal area of ADHD subjects.
What are N-acetyl aspartate and Choline?
300
Times more glutamate did researchers find in children with ADHD
What is 2.5?
400
Method of diagnosis for ADHD includes...
What is parent education, school intervention, stimulants, nonstimulant drugs, and child behavioral therapy.
400
Small size of female sample and risk of error in judgement and length manual compilation during experiment
What are two limitations to the criminality experiment?
400
Ventral Striatum, Prefrontal and Temporal Cortices
Name a brain region which Methylphenidate affects.
400
Located in the Right and Left frontal regions of the brain in ADHD
Where are Myoinositol/Creatine located?
400
Age range of participants in the "Brain Scans Revealed ADHD Differences" article
What is 6-12 years?
500
Percent of ADHD children that will have the condition as adults
What is 60%?
500
95-percent confidence intervals
What is a statistical test which was used during the criminality experiment?
500
Positron Emission Tomography
What is the technology used to evaluate the changes in the dopamine amounts?
500
This chemical is associated with regulation of sensorimotor, language, and memory and learning functioning in ADHD children.
What is Myoinositol/Creatine?
500
Limitation of "Brain Scans Revealed ADHD Differences" article