A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FRONTOSTRIATAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILDHOOD PSYCHIATRIC SYNDROMES

• Authors: Meszaros Gergely , Tarnok Zsanett , Olah Szabina , Gadoros Julia
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

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The paper surveys the clinical profile of childhood executive disorders and then presents the test battery adopted and elaborated to investigate these types of disorders. The Hungarian studies done on several hundred clinical and control subjects allow for a careful analysis of comorbidity patterns as well. ADHD was accompanied by a challenge to all prefrontal functions, while Tourette syndrome was typically accompanied by impaired prefrontal inhibitory functions. At the same time the obsessive-compulsive disorder was not accompanied by impairments in the dorsolateral circle. Emotional decisions were impaired in this as well, however. In anorexia nervosa the prefrontal system was challenged while according to our neuropsychological data it is a symptom alike obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Keywords

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ADHD; ANOREXIA; ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTOSTRIATAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; TOURETTE SYNDROME

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 117-141
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Meszaros Gergely

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Tarnok Zsanett

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Olah Szabina

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Gadoros Julia

• Gergely Meszaros, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA07408