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Junior temperament character inventory together with quantitative EEG discriminate children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder combined subtype from children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder combined subtype plus oppositional defiant disorder

STS Instructor Authored by Giuseppe A. Chiarenza

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Check out this Knowledge Base article from StressTherapy Solutions: Junior temperament character inventory together with quantitative EEG discriminate children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder combined subtype from children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder combined subtype plus oppositional defiant disorder.

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Study at a glance

Area
ADHD & Attention
Study type
Observational study
Authors
Chiarenza GA, Villa S, Galan L, Valdes-Sosa P, Bosch-Bayard J
Journal
International Journal of Psychophysiology
Year
2018
Participants
50 (28 ADHD combined type, 22 ADHD combined type + ODD)
Population
Children
Protocol
resting QEEG at scalp and sources combined with a temperament/character inventory

Key findings

  • Personality and EEG measures together separated the groups better than either alone
  • Selected traits: novelty seeking, self-directedness and cooperativeness
  • Scalp markers (delta at F4/Cz, theta at Fz/F4, beta at F7/F8) gave a robust AUC of 0.95
  • Source-level markers in orbitofrontal, cingulate, angular, occipital and insular regions gave an AUC of 0.91

DOI 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.05.007 → PubMed 29787785 →

This study looked for markers that tell apart children with combined-type ADHD from those who also have oppositional defiant disorder. Children completed a temperament and character questionnaire and had resting QEEG analysed at the scalp and at the cortical sources, and a stability-based selection method picked the most useful measures. Combining personality scores with EEG gave the best separation of the two groups, with frontal slow-wave and beta measures and several frontal, cingulate and posterior source regions among the selected markers.