Suboptimal decision making by children with ADHD in the face of risk : poor risk adjustment and delay aversion rather than general proneness to taking risks
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- Lin Sorensen, Edmund Barke (UGent) , Heike Eichele, Heidi van Wageningen, Daniel Wollschlaeger and Kerstin Jessica Plessen
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- Objective: Suboptimal decision making in the face of risk (DMR) in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be mediated by deficits in a number of different neuropsychological processes. We investigated DMR in children with ADHD using the Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT) to distinguish difficulties in adjusting to changing probabilities of choice outcomes (so-called risk adjustment) from general risk proneness, and to distinguish these 2 processes from delay aversion (the tendency to choose the least delayed option) and impairments in the ability to reflect on choice options. Based on previous research, we predicted that suboptimal performance on this task in children with ADHD would be primarily relate to problems with risk adjustment and delay aversion rather than general risk proneness. Method: Drug naive children with ADHD (n = 36), 8 to 12 years, and an age-matched group of typically developing children (n = 34) performed the CGT. Results: As predicted, children with ADHD were not more prone to making risky choices (i.e., risk proneness). However, they had difficulty adjusting to changing risk levels and were more delay aversive-with these 2 effects being correlated. Conclusions: Our findings add to the growing body of evidence that children with ADHD do not favor risk taking per se when performing gambling tasks, but rather may lack the cognitive skills or motivational style to appraise changing patterns of risk effectively.
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- ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER, DEFICIT-HYPERACTIVITY, DISORDER, IOWA GAMBLING TASK, EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS, PREFRONTAL CORTEX, RESPONSE-INHIBITION, NORMAL VOLUNTEERS, K-SADS, ADOLESCENTS, AGE, ADHD, gambling task, delay aversion, risk taking, Cambridge Gambling, Task
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8534090
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- Sorensen, Lin, et al. “Suboptimal Decision Making by Children with ADHD in the Face of Risk : Poor Risk Adjustment and Delay Aversion Rather than General Proneness to Taking Risks.” NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, vol. 31, no. 2, Amer Psychological Assoc, 2017, pp. 119–28, doi:10.1037/neu0000297.
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- Sorensen, L., Barke, E., Eichele, H., van Wageningen, H., Wollschlaeger, D., & Plessen, K. J. (2017). Suboptimal decision making by children with ADHD in the face of risk : poor risk adjustment and delay aversion rather than general proneness to taking risks. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, 31(2), 119–128. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000297
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- Sorensen, Lin, Edmund Barke, Heike Eichele, Heidi van Wageningen, Daniel Wollschlaeger, and Kerstin Jessica Plessen. 2017. “Suboptimal Decision Making by Children with ADHD in the Face of Risk : Poor Risk Adjustment and Delay Aversion Rather than General Proneness to Taking Risks.” NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 31 (2): 119–28. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000297.
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- Sorensen, Lin, Edmund Barke, Heike Eichele, Heidi van Wageningen, Daniel Wollschlaeger, and Kerstin Jessica Plessen. 2017. “Suboptimal Decision Making by Children with ADHD in the Face of Risk : Poor Risk Adjustment and Delay Aversion Rather than General Proneness to Taking Risks.” NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 31 (2): 119–128. doi:10.1037/neu0000297.
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- 1.Sorensen L, Barke E, Eichele H, van Wageningen H, Wollschlaeger D, Plessen KJ. Suboptimal decision making by children with ADHD in the face of risk : poor risk adjustment and delay aversion rather than general proneness to taking risks. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. 2017;31(2):119–28.
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- [1]L. Sorensen, E. Barke, H. Eichele, H. van Wageningen, D. Wollschlaeger, and K. J. Plessen, “Suboptimal decision making by children with ADHD in the face of risk : poor risk adjustment and delay aversion rather than general proneness to taking risks,” NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 119–128, 2017.
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