Problematic handling of emotions in youth with ADHD
NeuroIMAGE
Problems in dealing with emotions frequently occur in children and adolescents with ADHD ADHD. They often lack the ability to appropriately adjust emotional responses to meet the demands of various situations as needed. An effective emotion regulation is a core skill for us human beings enabling us to function properly in a social environment. The Hariri task is an emotional face-matching task and generally used to induce amygdala response to investigate emotional reactivity.
As a part of NeuroIMAGE project, Tammo compared the behavioral and neural correlates associated with the emotional reactivity between children and adolescents with ADHD in comparison with age-matched healthy controls. We also applied a psychophysiological interaction analysis to assess functional connectivity changes related to amygdala response across the Hariri task.
Background
Using data from NeuroIMAGE, research is being conducted to further investigate the genetics, environmental risk factors (also in interplay with genetics) and the function and structure of the brain in ADHD and related behavioral disorders.
The research study
A range of current methods and technologies are being used for the research related to NeuroIMAGE.
These include genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and functional and structural MR imaging (MRI).
Collaboration
In dit onderzoek werkten wij samen met de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG), het Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (Radboud University Nijmegen) en de universiteit van Oldenburg.