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: These results suggest maturational lag of regulatory control networks contributes to inattention and/or impulsivity across different clinical populations, and they invite new research aimed at direct comparative investigation .
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: More broadly, our finding of lagged maturation of regulatory control networks in ADHD fits well with a previous study in juvenile offenders that found that relative immaturity of connectivity of motor planning regions with other brain regions, including DMN regions, predicted greater impulsivity . These results suggest maturational lag of regulatory control networks contributes to inattention and/or impulsivity across different clinical populations, and they invite new research aimed at direct comparative investigation . We also observed maturational lag in integration of the dmPFC and PCC ( Fig.