Clinical trial NCT02823782: MRI Investigations in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and High Potential (HP) Children for a Better Therapeutic Approach
Official title: MRI Investigations in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and High Potential (HP) Children for a Better Therapeutic Approach
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: ADHD
Keywords: Laminar HP
Complex HP
Lead sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-07-06
Enrollment: 74
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: Impulsivity and/or hyperactivity in children has become one of the main clinical symptom for consultation, among the most frequent, in general or pediatric medicine. Among the different clinical forms of instability, ADHD appears to be an especially disabling condition for the development of the child, both in psychomotor, cognitive, emotional and relational aspects. Further, a significant link between ADHD children and some children with High Potential (HP) is observed. HP children show overall ahead cognitive developments compared to children with the same age. In these children, as well as in children with ADHD, an attention vulnerability, psychomotor deficits are noted, as well as emotional and relational deficits that significantly contrasted with some of their cognitive skills. Regarding the HP, the hypothesis is that children with significantly heterogeneous results (Complex) to the Wechsler IV scales are affected by this shift, and hence, by the difficulty of a differential diagnosis with ADHD, unlike those whose intelligence quotient (IQ) results that are more homogeneous (Laminar).

The goal of this work was to study a population of 80 children aged from 8 to 12 years (20 subjects per group) to evaluate the functional and structural brain development by:

* Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) acquisitions with cognitive stimulations, involving attention, working memory and semantic processing, and emotional stimulations,
* fMRI acquisitions at rest (without activation),
* diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) acquisitions,
* 3D anatomic acquisitions. Identification of developmental differences in certain cortical brain areas (eg, prefrontal vs parietal), white matter fiber bundles or functional networks preferentially used by one or other of these groups, will help to better understand this disease, and to improve the differential diagnosis in order to implement a more appropriate and personalized management of the patients via new therapeutic strategies.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Right-hand 4 groups :
* Laminar HP : IQ \> 130 and difference between Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) and Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) \< 9
* Complex HP : IQ \> 130 and difference between VCI and PRI \>15
* ADHD : 90 \< IQ \<110
* Controls : 90 \< IQ \<110

Exclusion Criteria:

* Subjects with any psychiatric disorders except ADHD,
* Subjects with known learning deficits (dyslexia, dysphasia...), attention deficits except for ADHD group
* Subjects with claustrophobia or magnetic devices
* Children with out both parental agreements

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cortical gray matter (GM) volumes
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Microstructural connectivity of white matter (WM) fiber bundles
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Functional MRI activity during cognitive tests
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Functional connectivity in resting-state fMRI
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Subcortical gray matter (GM) volumes
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Functional MRI activity during emotional tests
timeFrame: Day 1
measure: Functional connectivity in resting-state fMRI
timeFrame: Day 1
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bron
country: France
facility: Service de psychiatrie infantile, Hôpital Pierre Wertheimer, 59 Boulevard Pinel
Study officials:
affiliation: HCL
name: Olivier REVOL, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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