News Finding: Future studies of brain network maturation in ADHD could shed light into the neural basis for this difference.
Paper Finding: Our finding of maturational lag specifically in connections within and between these networks suggests a developmental etiology for the deficits proposed in these models.
News Context: The findings are also relevant to thinking about the longitudinal course of ADHD from childhood to adulthood. Future studies of brain network maturation in ADHD could shed light into the neural basis for this difference. "But without the database of fMRI images, and the spirit of collaboration that allowed them to be compiled and shared, we would never have reached this point."
Paper Context: In particular, lag was observed within the midline core of the DMN, as well as in DMN connections with right lateralized prefrontal regions (in frontoparietal network) and anterior insula (in ventral attention network). Our finding of maturational lag specifically in connections within and between these networks suggests a developmental etiology for the deficits proposed in these models. These advances raise possibilities for investigating maturational lag in ADHD in the developing ICN architecture of the brain (18).