Deficits of Executive Functioning in Conduct Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

• Main Authors: Hassan Shahrokhi (Author), Mehdi Tehrani- Doost (Author), Zahra Shahrivar (Author), Sara Farhang (Author), Shahrokh Amiri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Annals of Psychiatry and Treatment - Peertechz Publications, 2017-04-08.
• Subjects: Research Article
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<p><strong>Background: </strong>To investigates executive functioning in Conduct disorder with comorbid ADHD.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> Participants were adolescent males with ADHD, CD with comorbid ADHD and healthy controls. Executive functioning were assessed using Go/No go task, Iowa gambling test and selected tests from CANTAB.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During the SWM test, CD+ADHD group had the tendency to revisit boxes with a token compared to controls. CD+ADHD patients had a significantly higher total error compared to controls in ID/ ED set shift. They also needed more moves in SOC compared to controls and solved a signifi antly lower number of problems compared to ADHDs and controls. They had a lower delay time for choosing risky cards of Iowa.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>CD+ADHD is associated with a broad range of defi cits in executive functioning, compared to healthy controls as well as group with ADHD. ADHD group seem to have an intermediate performance compared to CD+ADHD and control groups in several measures.</p>