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Lack of inhibition: a motivational deficit in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and children with traumatic brain injuryK Konrad
Technical University of Aachen, Clinics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, RWTH Aachen, Neuen hofer Weg 21, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
Child Neuropsychol 6:286-96. 2000..The results further support a motivational/energetic explanation of the inhibitory deficit in children with ADHD, and of a primary response inhibition deficit due to structural brain damage in children with TBI...- Catecholamine functioning in children with traumatic brain injuries and children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderKerstin Konrad
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, RWTH Aachen, Neuenhofer Weg 21, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 16:425-33. 2003..Our study provides further support for similar but also different neurobiochemical characteristics in both groups... - Differential effects of methylphenidate on attentional functions in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderKerstin Konrad
Techinical University of Aachen, Germany
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:191-8. 2004..To examine the effects of methylphenidate on different attentional functions and behavior in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)... 
Neural mechanisms of empathy in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and their fathersEllen Greimel
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Neuenhofer Weg 21, Germany
Neuroimage 49:1055-65. 2010..Moreover, the findings provide evidence that both aberrant neural face and mirroring mechanisms are implicated in empathy impairments in ASD...- Morphometric brain abnormalities in boys with conduct disorderThomas Huebner
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Germany
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:540-7. 2008..Although there have been several neuroimaging studies on morphometric differences in adults with antisocial personality disorder, little is known about structural brain aberrations in boys with CD... - Cognitive flexibility in juvenile anorexia nervosa patients before and after weight recoveryKatharina Bühren
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Neuenhofer Weg 21, 52074 Aachen, Germany
J Neural Transm 119:1047-57. 2012..One could speculate that the shorter duration of illness and the incomplete maturation of the prefrontal cortices contribute to these findings... - Sex differences in attentional performance and their modulation by methylphenidate in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderThomas Gunther
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 20:179-86. 2010.... - Coherent motion processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): an fMRI studySarah Brieber
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
Neuropsychologia 48:1644-51. 2010..This might reflect differences in the perception of visual stimuli in ASD, which possibly result in impaired integration of motion signals... - Long-term effects of methylphenidate on neural networks associated with executive attention in children with ADHD: results from a longitudinal functional MRI studyKerstin Konrad
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1633-41. 2007.... - Impact of anxiety disorders on attentional functions in children with ADHDTimo D Vloet
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
J Affect Disord 124:283-90. 2010..This is the first study that examines the influence of anxiety disorders (ANX) on ADHD in a model-oriented approach including selectivity and intensity parameters of attention... - Differential patterns of disordered eating in subjects with ADHD and overweightChristine Wilhelm
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Clinics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
World J Biol Psychiatry 12:118-23. 2011..Despite growing evidence for an association between overweight and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), still little is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship... - Clinical evaluation of subjective and objective changes in motor activity and attention in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a double-blind methylphenidate trialKerstin Konrad
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 15:180-90. 2005..Thus, for clinical practice, it should be taken into account that behavior ratings of ADHD symptoms seemed to be predominantly influenced by changes of motor activity... - Dysfunctional attentional networks in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: evidence from an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging studyKerstin Konrad
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 59:643-51. 2006..Although there is evidence for attentional dysfunction in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the neural basis of these deficits remains poorly understood... - Modulation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms by short- and long-acting methylphenidate over the course of a dayThomas Gunther
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 22:131-8. 2012..Thus, our data suggest that it is crucial to assess the different domains of ADHD symptoms precisely over the course of a day to determine the optimal titration and stimulant formulation for a person with ADHD... - Attentional functions in children and adolescents with ADHD, depressive disorders, and the comorbid conditionThomas Gunther
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:324-31. 2011..This study examines the influence of DDs on ADHD in a model-oriented approach that includes selectivity and intensity attention parameters... - The influence of risperidone on attentional functions in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and co-morbid disruptive behavior disorderThomas Gunther
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 16:725-35. 2006..However, no negative impact of risperidone was observed on attentional functions either, i.e., there was no slowing of cognitive speed... - Structural brain abnormalities in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorderSarah Brieber
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1251-8. 2007..For the identification of endophenotypes across diagnostic categories, further investigations of phenotypic overlap between ADHD and autism at the behavioural, neurocognitive, and brain levels are needed... - Age-dependent differences in attentional processes in ADHD and disruptive behavior disorderThomas Gunther
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Clinics, Technical University Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Dev Neuropsychol 34:422-34. 2009..However, these group differences between ADHD, ADHD + DBD, and controls decreased with increasing age. Thus, age-related differences must be considered in neuropsychological studies... 
Attentional performance in children and adolescents with tic disorder and co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: new insights from a 2 × 2 factorial design studyEllen Greimel
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of RWTH Aachen, 52074, Aachen, Germany
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:819-28. 2011....- Neural mechanisms of encoding social and non-social context information in autism spectrum disorderEllen Greimel
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Neuropsychologia 50:3440-9. 2012..Increased activation in the dorsal MPFC in ASD individuals might reflect supervisory cognitive processes related to the suppression of a distracting non-social context... - The role of finger representations and saccades for number processing: an FMRI study in childrenHelga Krinzinger
Section Child Neuropsychology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen Aachen, Germany
Front Psychol 2:373. 2011..We conclude that finger counting may critically mediate the step from non-symbolic to symbolic and exact number processing via somatosensory integration processes and therefore represents an important example of embodied cognition... - Neural interaction of speech and gesture: differential activations of metaphoric co-verbal gesturesTilo Kircher
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr 30, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
Neuropsychologia 47:169-79. 2009..Speech related gestures seem to enhance language comprehension during the face-to-face communication... - The influence of sertraline on attention and verbal memory in children and adolescents with anxiety disordersThomas Gunther
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 15:608-18. 2005..Thus, the cognitive side effects of sertraline seemed to differ slightly between pediatric patients and those described in adult patient groups, should, therefore, be carefully assessed... - Development of attentional networks: an fMRI study with children and adultsKerstin Konrad
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Aachen, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
Neuroimage 28:429-39. 2005.... - [Reliability of attention and verbal memory tests with normal children and adolescents--clinical implications]Thomas Gunther
Klinik fur Kinder und Jugendpsychiatrie und psychotherapie, Universitatsklinikum Aachen
Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother 33:169-79. 2005..Selected clinical findings are summarised. Neuropsychological attention and memory tasks that are suited for the examination of children and adolescents are described... - [Psychiatric disorders after early brain damage in children and adolescents - four case reports]Thomas Gunther
Lehr und Forschungsgebiet für klinische Neuropsychologie des Kindes und Jugendalters, Klinik für Kinder und Jugendpsychiatrie, Universitätsklinikum der RWTH Aachen
Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother 36:427-35. 2008..The characteristics of children and adolescents with organic mental disorders with regard to diagnosis and intervention will be exemplified and discussed within the following four case studies... - Verbal memory and aspects of attentional control in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders or depressive disordersThomas Gunther
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of Aachen, Neuenhofer Weg 21, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
J Affect Disord 82:265-9. 2004..The aim was to examine basic performance on attention and memory tasks in treatment-naive children and adolescents with anxiety disorder or depressive disorder and in healthy subjects under drug-free conditions... - Neuropsychological and behavioural disinhibition in adult ADHD compared to borderline personality disorderK Lampe
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen, University Hospital, Rostock, Germany
Psychol Med 37:1717-29. 2007.... - Sensitivity, reproducibility, and reliability of self-paced versus fixed stimulus presentation in an fMRI study on exact, non-symbolic arithmetic in typically developing children aged between 6 and 12 yearsHelga Krinzinger
Section Child Neuropsychology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital of the RWTH, Aachen, Germany
Dev Neuropsychol 36:721-40. 2011..Therefore, self-paced study designs seem to be a valid option for developmental fMRI studies on higher cognition... - Early pathogenic care and the development of ADHD-like symptomsBrigitte Dahmen
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Neuenhofer Weg 21, 52074 Aachen, Germany
J Neural Transm 119:1023-36. 2012..Based on this evidence, suggestions for the treatment of ADHD-like symptoms in children after adverse early life experiences are provided... - Aetiology of anorexia nervosa: from a "psychosomatic family model" to a neuropsychiatric disorder?Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Neuenhofer Weg 21, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 261:S177-81. 2011.... - Age-dependent neuropsychological deficits and effects of methylphenidate in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a comparison of pre- and grade-school childrenC Hanisch
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Technical University, Aachen, Germany
J Neural Transm 111:865-81. 2004..Depending on the nature of the specified attention deficit, subjects were assigned to groups of cognitive subtypes. The effects of methylphenidate (MPH) were analysed depending on age and cognitive subtype... - Inhibitory control in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)K Konrad
Clinics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Brain Inj 14:859-75. 2000.... - Hyperresponsiveness to social rewards in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)Gregor Kohls
Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Neuenhofer Weg 21, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
Behav Brain Funct 5:20. 2009..abstract:.. - Structural and functional MRI- findings in children and adolescents with antisocial behaviorTimo D Vloet
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen, University Hospital, Neuenhofer Weg 21, D 52074 Aachen, Germany
Behav Sci Law 26:99-111. 2008..Though the investigation of biological factors in antisocial subjects has made great progress in recent years, today MRI is still a rather complex, expensive and indistinct method for forensic assessment... - Overweight and obesity in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderK Holtkamp
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Aachen, Germany
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:685-9. 2004..The aim of our study was to assess if the prevalence of overweight and obesity is lower in a population of boys with ADHD in comparison with the German healthy male reference population of the same age... - Oculomotor inhibition in children with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)C Hanisch
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
J Neural Transm 113:671-84. 2006.... - Association and linkage of allelic variants of the dopamine transporter gene in ADHDS Friedel
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Duisburg Essen, Essen, Germany
Mol Psychiatry 12:923-33. 2007..Future studies are required to assess if variation at this locus also explains other positive linkage results obtained for chromosome 5p... - A genome-wide scan for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 155 German sib-pairsJ Hebebrand
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Duisburg Essen, Essen, Germany
Mol Psychiatry 11:196-205. 2006..Despite differences in ethnicity, ascertainment and phenotyping schemes, linkage results in ADHD appear remarkably consistent... - No evidence for preferential transmission of common valine allele of the Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) in ADHDB G Schimmelmann
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Rheinische Kliniken Essen, University of Duisburg Essen, Essen, Germany
J Neural Transm 114:523-6. 2007..We did not find support for an involvement of the Val66 allele of the Val66Met polymorphism of BDNF in the pathogenesis of ADHD in our sample... - Emotional processing in male adolescents with childhood-onset conduct disorderSabine C Herpertz
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Rostock, Germany
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:781-91. 2008..While a number of functional neuroimaging studies on emotional processing have been performed in antisocial adults, little is known about how CD children process emotional information... - Neurophysiological correlates of relatively enhanced local visual search in autistic adolescentsZina M Manjaly
Institute of Neuroscience and Biophysics, Department of Medicine, Research Centre Julich, 52425 Julich, Germany
Neuroimage 35:283-91. 2007..These results suggest that enhanced local processing in early visual areas, as opposed to impaired processing of global context, is characteristic for performance of the EFT by autistic patients... - Attentional dysfunction in children after corrective cardiac surgery in infancyHedwig H Hövels-Gürich
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany
Ann Thorac Surg 83:1425-30. 2007..Attentional dysfunction in children after corrective cardiac surgery in infancy has rarely been evaluated and is the topic of the present work... - [Neuroimaging data of ADHD, tic-disorder and obsessive-compulsive-disorder in children and adolescents]Timo D Vloet
Klinik fur Kinder und Jugendpsychiatrie und psychotherapie, Universitatsklinikum Aachen, Neuenhofer Weg 21, DE 52074 Aachen
Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother 34:343-55. 2006..Since the majority of the studies reviewed are characterised by small and heterogeneous samples, and since the studies differ in their methods, comparability is limited and general conclusions can not be drawn... - Response to emotional stimuli in boys with conduct disorderSabine C Herpertz
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Rostock University, Gehlsheimer Str 20, D 18147 Rostock, Germany
Am J Psychiatry 162:1100-7. 2005..The purpose of this study was to examine autonomic arousal in boys with conduct disorder, comorbid conduct disorder and ADHD, and ADHD only... - Acquired dyslexia after stroke in the prereading stage: a single case treatment study with f MRIAnja Fiori
Department of Neurolinguistics, University Hospital of Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Neurocase 12:252-62. 2006..Data showed significant gains in reading performance only after the specific intervention. These gains remained stable in a catamnesis 2 years later...