News Finding: "It is particularly noteworthy that the networks we found to have lagging maturation in ADHD are linked to the very behaviors that are the symptoms of ADHD," he says.
Paper Finding: Our results invite further investigation into the neurobiological mechanisms in ADHD that produce delays in development of large-scale networks.
News Context: These networks, and the connections between them, mature throughout early childhood all the way to young adulthood. "It is particularly noteworthy that the networks we found to have lagging maturation in ADHD are linked to the very behaviors that are the symptoms of ADHD," he says. "The results of this study set the stage for the next phase of this research, which is to examine individual components of the networks that have the maturational lag," he says.
Paper Context: Our results provide strong initial evidence that these alterations arise from delays in typical maturational patterns. Our results invite further investigation into the neurobiological mechanisms in ADHD that produce delays in development of large-scale networks. We found significant and specific maturational lag in connections within default mode network (DMN) and in DMN interconnections with two task positive networks (TPNs): frontoparietal network and ventral attention network.