Explore the Association between the Emotion Recognition and the Attention Processing under the Emotional Stimuli in ADHD

Lots of studies suggest that children with ADHD have deficits in facial emotion recognition, especially for the negative emotion. But there were arguments for this deficit is a secondary problem due to the general attention impairment in ADHD, or a specific social cognitive processing to ADHD. In this proposal, we use the emotion attentional bias and emotional go / no go paradigm to answer this question. 100 children and adolescent with ADHD and 100 typical controls will be recruited. The measurements will be included diagnostic assessment tools: 1) Chinese version of Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Epidemiology version. 2) Conners’ Parent/Teacher Rating Scale- Revised: Short Form, CPRS-R:S/CTRS-R:S. 3) Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham, Version Ⅳ（SNAP-Ⅳ）Rating Scale - Parent/ Teacher Form. Emotion assessment tools:1) Facial emotion recognition task. 2) Emotional attentional bias task (150ms, 500ms). 3) Emotional Go/ No Go task(Reward/ no Reward). Cognitive assessment tool: 1) Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition Chinese Version. This study would elucidate that association between the deficits in facial emotion recognition and the emotional attention processing in ADHD, also could offer the suggestion for the intervention of social function in ADHD.

Project ID:PF10301-0613
External Project ID:NSC102-2410-H182-002-MY2