Adult patients with ADHD differ from healthy controls in implicit, but not explicit, emotion regulation.

Background: There is increasing evidence that people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are impaired in emotion regulation, but psychophysiological and functional MRI data on emotion processing in adult patients with ADHD are scarce. We investigated the neural correlates of reappraisal as one of the most efficient emotion-regulation strategies.

Methods: We included 30 adult patients with ADHD and 35 healthy controls in our study.