Cavadas Marcia, Pereira Liliane Desgualdo, Mattos Paulo
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Domingos Mondim 165, 21920-160 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2007 Mar;65(1):138-43. doi: 10.1590/s0004-282x2007000100028.
To compare the performance of a group of children and adolescents diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) pre and post-methylphenidate use in a behavioral auditory processing test battery (AP).
Twenty-nine subjects, male and female, ranging from 7 to 15 years old have undergone different behavioral auditory processing tests. A control group composed of 29 subjects with and without learning disabilities was also evaluated.
The group with ADHD had a performance similar to the control group without learning disabilities which improved after medication. The group with learning disabilities and without ADHD had the worst performance in tests while the group without learning disabilities and without ADHD exhibited the best ones.
The AP battery was unable to distinguish ADHD patients from paired controls; the use of methylphenidate improved the performance on AP tests of ADHD group in the post-medication evaluation.
比较一组被诊断为注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)的儿童和青少年在使用哌甲酯前后在行为听觉处理测试组(AP)中的表现。
29名年龄在7至15岁之间的受试者,包括男性和女性,接受了不同的行为听觉处理测试。还评估了一个由29名有或无学习障碍的受试者组成的对照组。
患有ADHD的组与没有学习障碍的对照组表现相似,用药后有所改善。有学习障碍但没有ADHD的组在测试中表现最差,而没有学习障碍且没有ADHD的组表现最佳。
AP测试组无法将ADHD患者与配对的对照组区分开来;在用药后评估中,哌甲酯的使用改善了ADHD组在AP测试中的表现。