Article
Neurobiology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Pediatric research - 1 May 2011
Purper-Ouakil Diane, Ramoz Nicolas, Lepagnol-Bestel Aude-Marie, Gorwood Philip, Simonneau Michel
Abstract excerpt
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder, has been associated with various structural and functional CNS abnormalities but findings about neurobiological mechanisms linking genes to brain phenotypes are just beginning to emerge. Despite the high heritability of the disorder and its main symptom dimensions, common individual genetic variants are likely to account for...
Topics
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
- Brain
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Phenotype