August 17, 2020Inhibitory control problems are more closely tied to sleep disturbances than they are to symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) in children with and without the condition, according to a new study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.1To investigate the association between dysregulated sleep, inhibition performance, and ADHD symptoms, researchers studied 73 children with ADHD and 73 children without ADHD ages 10.5 to 13.5.
They used the Adolescent Sleep Wake scale and parent reports to measure sleep problems, and the Stop Signal Task (SST) to measure inhibition.Children with ADHD were found to have more parent-reported sleep problems; self-reported sleep measures were not significantly.
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