Publications by authors named "Jeffrey N Epstein"
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- A study looked at how ADHD affects teens' school performance and whether they go on to higher education, involving 749 participants from different places.
- Teens with ADHD who went to postsecondary education had somewhat milder symptoms compared to those who didn’t, but the differences weren’t huge.
- All teens showed a drop in their school performance from ages 9 to 17, but those with ADHD who enrolled in higher education ended high school with better grades than those who didn’t.
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- The study compares ADHD, ASD, and OCD using brain imaging data from over 5,000 healthy controls and numerous patients across different age groups, focusing on structural differences in the brain.
- No consistent differences were observed across all three disorders, with some specific findings like smaller hippocampal volumes in children with ADHD compared to OCD.
- The results highlight that while subtle differences exist between these disorders, the distinctions are most apparent in specific age groups, emphasizing ADHD's unique brain volume differences in younger individuals and ASD's cortical thickness variations in adults.
Significant ethnic differences have been consistently documented on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) teacher rating scales. Whether these ethnic differences result from a teacher rating bias or reflect actual classroom behavior patterns is unknown. Ethnic differences between Caucasian and African American (AA) elementary schoolchildren on teacher ratings and codings of observed classroom behavior were examined with latent variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs neuropsychological mechanisms for attention have been hypothesized to be located in the right hemisphere of the brain, several investigators have begun to conceptualize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related attentional deficits as involving right-hemispheric abnormalities. The authors evaluated and compared adult patients diagnosed with ADHD with a non-ADHD group of patients using a chronometric visual-spatial attention task that is sensitive to hemispheric differences in efficiency of information processing. Reaction times across different cuing conditions, cue-target delays, and visual fields were assessed.
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