Publications by authors named "Barbara Calil Lacerda"
Background: Very preterm/very low birth weight (VP/VLBW) newborns can have lifelong morbidities, as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Clinicians have no markers to discriminate which among those individuals will develop later ADHD, based only on the clinical presentation at birth. Our aim was to develop an individualized risk calculator for ADHD in VP/VLBW newborns.
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- Children born very premature or with very low birth weight (VP/VLBW) often show deficits in executive functioning, particularly in inhibitory control (IC), which is also seen in children with ADHD.
- A study was conducted on 79 VP/VLBW preschoolers to determine if having ADHD worsened their inhibitory control deficits by using various assessments to measure ADHD symptoms and IC performance.
- Results indicated no significant differences in inhibitory control between ADHD and non-ADHD groups, suggesting that ADHD does not further impair the already compromised executive functioning in these children.