Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, UK.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, Wales, UK.
J Atten Disord. 2024 Jan;28(1):89-98. doi: 10.1177/10870547231201870. Epub 2023 Oct 21.
Neurocognitive impairments are associated with child and adult ADHD in clinical settings. However, it is unknown whether adult ADHD symptoms in the general population are associated with the same pattern of cognitive impairment. We examined this using a prospective, population-based cohort spanning birth to age 25 years.
We examined associations between self-reported adult ADHD symptoms and cognitive task performance (attention and response inhibition) in adulthood and childhood.
Self-rated ADHD symptoms at age 25 were associated with poorer performance in age 25 cognitive tasks capturing ADHD-related functioning (attention = -0.03, 95% CI [0.05, -0.01], = .005; response inhibition = -0.03, 95% CI [-0.05, -0.01], = .002).
Neurocognitive impairments linked to adult ADHD symptoms in the general population, are similar to those found in people with childhood ADHD symptoms and are consistent with findings in adult ADHD clinical samples.
神经认知障碍与临床环境中的儿童和成人 ADHD 有关。然而，尚不清楚一般人群中的成人 ADHD 症状是否与相同的认知障碍模式有关。我们使用从出生到 25 岁的前瞻性、基于人群的队列研究来检验这一点。
我们研究了成年期和儿童期自我报告的成人 ADHD 症状与认知任务表现（注意力和反应抑制）之间的关联。
25 岁时自我评估的 ADHD 症状与 25 岁时与 ADHD 相关功能的认知任务表现较差相关（注意力 = -0.03，95%CI [0.05，-0.01]， = .005；反应抑制 = -0.03，95%CI [-0.05，-0.01]， = .002）。
与一般人群中成人 ADHD 症状相关的神经认知障碍与儿童期 ADHD 症状患者中的神经认知障碍相似，与成人 ADHD 临床样本中的发现一致。
