Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Objective: Children with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) react explosively and inappropriately to emotional stimuli. It could be hypothesized that these children have some impairment in attending to emotional cues. Based on this hypothesis, we conducted this study to evaluate visua...
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| author | Ebrahim Pishyareh Mehdi Tehrani-Doost Javad Mahmoodi-Gharaie Anahita Khorrami Mitra Joudi Mehrnoosh Ahmadi |
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| description | Objective: Children with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) react explosively and inappropriately to emotional stimuli. It could be hypothesized that these children have some impairment in attending to emotional cues. Based on this hypothesis, we conducted this study to evaluate visual directions of children with ADHD towards paired emotional scenes.Method: thirty boys between the ages of 6 and 11 years diagnosed with ADHD were compared with 30 age-matched normal boys. All participants were presented paired emotional and neutral scenes in the four following categories: pleasant-neutral; pleasant-unpleasant; unpleasant-neutral; and neutral – neutral. Meanwhile, their visual orientations towards these pictures were evaluated using the eye tracking system. The number and duration of first fixation and duration of first gaze were compared between the two groups using the MANOVA analysis. The performance of each group in different categories was also analyzed using the Friedman test.Results: With regards to duration of first gaze, which is the time taken to fixate on a picture before moving to another picture, ADHD children spent less time on pleasant pictures compared to normal group ,while they were looking at pleasant – neutral and unpleasant – pleasant pairs. The duration of first gaze on unpleasant pictures was higher while children with ADHD were looking at unpleasant – neutral pairs (P<0.01).Conclusion: based on the findings of this study it could be concluded that children with ADHD attend to unpleasant conditions more than normal children which leads to their emotional reactivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6ea113f6a16f4816ac79c22f3ff1ce232022-12-21T22:28:19ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Psychiatry1735-45872008-22152012-06-01729396Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderEbrahim PishyarehMehdi Tehrani-DoostJavad Mahmoodi-GharaieAnahita KhorramiMitra JoudiMehrnoosh AhmadiObjective: Children with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) react explosively and inappropriately to emotional stimuli. It could be hypothesized that these children have some impairment in attending to emotional cues. Based on this hypothesis, we conducted this study to evaluate visual directions of children with ADHD towards paired emotional scenes.Method: thirty boys between the ages of 6 and 11 years diagnosed with ADHD were compared with 30 age-matched normal boys. All participants were presented paired emotional and neutral scenes in the four following categories: pleasant-neutral; pleasant-unpleasant; unpleasant-neutral; and neutral – neutral. Meanwhile, their visual orientations towards these pictures were evaluated using the eye tracking system. The number and duration of first fixation and duration of first gaze were compared between the two groups using the MANOVA analysis. The performance of each group in different categories was also analyzed using the Friedman test.Results: With regards to duration of first gaze, which is the time taken to fixate on a picture before moving to another picture, ADHD children spent less time on pleasant pictures compared to normal group ,while they were looking at pleasant – neutral and unpleasant – pleasant pairs. The duration of first gaze on unpleasant pictures was higher while children with ADHD were looking at unpleasant – neutral pairs (P<0.01).Conclusion: based on the findings of this study it could be concluded that children with ADHD attend to unpleasant conditions more than normal children which leads to their emotional reactivity.http://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/315/283AttentionAttention deficit disorder with hyperactivityEmotionPsychophysiology |
| spellingShingle | Ebrahim Pishyareh Mehdi Tehrani-Doost Javad Mahmoodi-Gharaie Anahita Khorrami Mitra Joudi Mehrnoosh Ahmadi Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Iranian Journal of Psychiatry Attention Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity Emotion Psychophysiology |
| title | Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| title_full | Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| title_fullStr | Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| title_short | Attentional Bias towards Emotional Scenes in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| title_sort | attentional bias towards emotional scenes in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
| topic | Attention Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity Emotion Psychophysiology |
| url | http://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/315/283 |
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