News Finding: "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 Finding: This regression modeling yielded two comprehensive maps of effect of age and effect of ADHD, respectively.
News Context: "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. "This study provides a coarse-grained understanding, and now we want to examine this phenomenon in a more fine-grained way that might lead us to a true biological marker, or neuromarker, for ADHD."
Paper Context: Our results invite further investigation into the neurobiological mechanisms in ADHD that produce delays in development of large-scale networks. This regression modeling yielded two comprehensive maps of effect of age and effect of ADHD, respectively. Examining patterns of spatial correspondence across populations of connections in these whole-cortex connectomic maps provides a powerful way to investigate the maturational lag hypothesis.