News Finding: Future studies of brain network maturation in ADHD could shed light into the neural basis for this difference.
Paper Finding: Our results invite further investigation into the neurobiological mechanisms in ADHD that produce delays in development of large-scale networks.
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: 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.