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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Rosemary TannockSummaryAffiliation: University of Toronto Country: Canada Publications
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Rethinking ADHD and LD in DSM-5: proposed changes in diagnostic criteriaRosemary Tannock
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
J Learn Disabil 46:5-25. 2013....
Mathematics anxiety in children with developmental dyscalculiaOrly Rubinsten
Edmond J, Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Israel
Behav Brain Funct 6:46. 2010....- Origins of altered reinforcement effects in ADHDEspen Borgå Johansen
Centre for Advanced Study CAS at the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway
Behav Brain Funct 5:7. 2009..Theoretical and experimental analyses of these moderating factors will help to determine just how reinforcement processes are altered in ADHD. Such analyses can only help to improve treatment strategies for ADHD... - MEG event-related desynchronization and synchronization deficits during basic somatosensory processing in individuals with ADHDColleen Dockstader
Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Behav Brain Funct 4:8. 2008..abstract:.. - Inattention, working memory, and academic achievement in adolescents referred for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)Maria Rogers
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Neurosciences and Mental Health Research Program, Toronto, Canada
Child Neuropsychol 17:444-58. 2011..These findings imply that working memory is a risk factor for academic failure for adolescents with attentional problems... 
The norepinephrine transporter gene and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderCathy L Barr
Department of Psychiatry and Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet 114:255-9. 2002..8%) was similar to that previously reported in a control sample (2.2%), it is unlikely that this variant is related to the ADHD phenotype. Our results do not support the NET1 gene as a major genetic susceptibility factor in ADHD...- The hierarchical factor model of ADHD: invariant across age and national groupings?Maggie E Toplak
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:292-303. 2012..Specific consideration was given to factorial invariance analyses across different ages and different countries in the ADHD sample... - Altered cortical morphology in sensorimotor processing regions in adolescents and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderEmma G Duerden
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Brain Res 1445:82-91. 2012..Results suggest that sensorimotor brain regions are altered in ADHD and these changes may not dissipate in adolescence, but rather persist into adulthood... - Parental involvement in children's learning: comparing parents of children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)Maria A Rogers
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Sch Psychol 47:167-85. 2009..Implications for school psychology practice are discussed... - The unity and diversity of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity in ADHD: evidence for a general factor with separable dimensionsMaggie E Toplak
York University, Toronto, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:1137-50. 2009..The results suggest that there is an important unitary component to ADHD symptoms and separable dimensional traits of Inattention and Hyperactivity/Impulsivity... - Abnormal neural reactivity to unpredictable sensory events in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderColleen Dockstader
Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biol Psychiatry 66:376-83. 2009..Thus, we investigated mu reactivity in a group of adults with ADHD... - Replication test for association of the IL-1 receptor antagonist gene, IL1RN, with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderVirginia L Misener
Cell and Molecular Biology Division, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ont, Canada
Neuropsychobiology 50:231-4. 2004..e. false-positive) result. These findings highlight the need for further investigations of this marker, in additional independent ADHD samples, in the future... - Investigation of the G protein subunit Galphaolf gene (GNAL) in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorderNancy Laurin
Cell and Molecular Biology Division, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ont, Canada
J Psychiatr Res 42:117-24. 2008..005) and rs8098539A (P=0.035). These preliminary findings suggest a possible contribution of GNAL in the susceptibility to ADHD, with possible involvement of parent-of-origin effects... - Association study of the brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) gene in attention deficit hyperactivity disorderJonghun Lee
Cell and Molecular Biology Division, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 144:976-81. 2007..651, P = 0.008). These results should be interpreted cautiously, however, because of the low haplotype frequency. In light of the evidence for an involvement of BDNF in ADHD, further analysis of the BDNF gene in ADHD is warranted... - A pilot study of working memory and academic achievement in college students with ADHDRachel J Gropper
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Atten Disord 12:574-81. 2009..To investigate working memory (WM), academic achievement, and their relationship in university students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)... - Empathy and social perspective taking in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderImola Marton
Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education OISE, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:107-18. 2009..Girls were more empathic and had higher overall social perspective taking scores than boys. Implications for research and practice are discussed... - Executive function and suicidal risk in women with Borderline Personality DisorderJeannette LeGris
Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Psychiatry Res 196:101-8. 2012..2003), the sensitivity of stroop performance to suicidal risk may be clinically important. Interference control may represent a "diathesis" for suicide that is independent of psychiatric diagnoses... - Association study for genes at chromosome 5p13-q11 in attention deficit hyperactivity disorderNancy Laurin
Genetics and Development Division, The Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:600-5. 2008..Our results suggest that these six genes are unlikely to be susceptibility genes in the chromosome 5p13-q11 region and other genes should now be considered for priority study... - No evidence for genetic association between DARPP-32 (PP1R1B) polymorphisms and attention deficit hyperactivity disorderNancy Laurin
Division of Genetics and Development, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:339-42. 2008..In conclusion, albeit a key regulatory role in dopamine signaling, our data do not support a major contribution of the DARPP-32 gene in ADHD... - Measuring anxiety: parent-child reporting differences in clinical samplesJose Barbosa
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Depress Anxiety 15:61-5. 2002..Such measures can be useful in monitoring clinical progress, however, provided parent and child reports are examined separately... - Narrative skills in children with selective mutism: an exploratory studyAlison McInnes
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Speech Lang Pathol 13:304-15. 2004..The assessment procedure developed for this study may be potentially useful for language clinicians... - The gene for synapsin III and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderRohit Makkar
Cell and Molecular Biology Division, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Psychiatr Genet 17:109-12. 2007..On the basis of the role of synapsin III in the modulation of neurotransmitter release, we tested this gene as a candidate contributing to the genetic susceptibility of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder... - The serotonin receptor HTR1B: gene polymorphisms in attention deficit hyperactivity disorderAbel Ickowicz
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 144:121-5. 2007..In addition we did not find evidence to suggest an association between HTR1B and perfectionism in this sample of ADHD families... - Neuropsychological profiles of adolescents with ADHD: effects of reading difficulties and genderJulia J Rucklidge
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:988-1003. 2002..Females may be less impaired in executive function although adolescent females with ADHD have yet to be studied... - Methylphenidate improves Stroop naming speed, but not response interference, in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorderAnne Claude Bedard
Institute of Medical Science, The University of Toronto and Brain and Behaviour Research Unit, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 12:301-9. 2002..Response interference is a core component of response inhibition that has been shown to be impaired in children with ADHD... - Selective inhibition in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder off and on stimulant medicationAnne-Claude Bedard
Institute of Medical Science, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 31:315-27. 2003..On the one hand, findings are consistent with purported inhibition deficit in ADHD, but on the other hand, suggest that neither the impairment itself, nor MPH effects, were restricted to inhibition... - Listening comprehension and working memory are impaired in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder irrespective of language impairmentAlison McInnes
Brain and Behaviour Research Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Abnorm Child Psychol 31:427-43. 2003..Findings that children with ADHD but no LI showed subtle higher-level listening comprehension deficits have implications for both current diagnostic practices and conceptualizations of ADHD... - Methylphenidate improves visual-spatial memory in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderAnne-Claude Bedard
Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:260-8. 2004..Also, MPH significantly improved left-handed motor control. CONCLUSIONS: Beneficial effects of MPH on visual-spatial processing in ADHD are selective and restricted to visual-spatial memory... - Association of reading disabilities with regions marked by acetylated H3 histones in KIAA0319Jillian M Couto
Genetics and Development Division, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 153:447-62. 2010..Our data indicates that this putative regulatory region is a likely site of genetic variation contributing to RD in our sample, further narrowing the candidate region... - Reading comprehension and reading related abilities in adolescents with reading disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderKaren Ghelani
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Dyslexia 10:364-84. 2004..Implications for reading interventions are outlined, as well as the clinical relevance for diagnosis... - A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderRhonda Martinussen
Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:377-84. 2005..Future research is needed to more clearly delineate the nature, severity, and specificity of the impairments to ADHD... - Inhibition of motor responses in siblings concordant and discordant for attention deficit hyperactivity disorderRussell J Schachar
Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto M5N 2L1, Canada
Am J Psychiatry 162:1076-82. 2005..The authors sought to determine whether nonaffected siblings of ADHD probands have a motor response inhibition deficit and to assess concordance for this inhibition deficit in ADHD-concordant and ADHD-discordant sibling pairs... - Sequence variation in the 3'-untranslated region of the dopamine transporter gene and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)Yu Feng
Cell and Molecular Biology Division, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 139:1-6. 2005..Our results therefore refute the possibility of the reported DraI variation or alleles of the VNTR as the functional variants contributing to the disorder... - Temporal information processing in ADHD: findings to date and new methodsMaggie E Toplak
Brain and Behaviour Research Program, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont, Canada
J Neurosci Methods 151:15-29. 2006..This approach can lay the groundwork to provide a more precise understanding of neural network activity during different aspects and stages of temporal information processing in ADHD... - Gene for the serotonin transporter and ADHD: no association with two functional polymorphismsKaren G Wigg
Department of Psychiatry, Cell and Molecular Division, The Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 141:566-70. 2006..These polymorphisms were genotyped in 209 ADHD families identified through an affected proband. We did not find evidence for an association of these polymorphisms, or haplotypes of these polymorphisms, to ADHD in this sample... - Anxiety, methylphenidate response, and working memory in children with ADHDAnne Claude Bedard
University of Toronto, Canada, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
J Atten Disord 11:546-57. 2008..To investigate the effects of methylphenidate (MPH) on components of working memory (WM) in children with ADHD and determine whether MPH produces differential effects on WM in children with comorbid anxiety (ANX)... - Effects of methylphenidate on working memory components: influence of measurementAnne Claude Bedard
Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:872-80. 2007..To investigate the effects of methylphenidate (MPH) on components of working memory (WM) in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and determine the responsiveness of WM measures to MPH...