background: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is a common psychiatric disorder among children and adolescents that can be continued into adulthood in 30 to 50% of cases. adult adhd disorder can affect the performance of an individual and may predispose to drug abuse, alcoholism, smoking, sexual offenses, violation of law, educational and other social problems. the coincidences of ...

how to cite this article: pishyareh e, tehrani-doost m, mahmoodi-gharaie j, khorrami a, rahmdar sr. a comparative study of sustained attentional bias on emotional processing in adhd children to pictures with eye-tracking. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):64-70. abstract objective adhd children have anomalous and negative behavior especially in emotionally related fields when compared to ot...

introduction: the utility and discriminatory pattern of the clock face drawing test in adhd is unclear. this study therefore compared clock face drawing test performance in children with adhd and controls. methods: 95 school children with adhd and 191 other children were matched for gender ratio and age. adhd symptoms severities were assessed using dsm-iv adhd checklist and their intellectual f...

Abstract Background: The current study aims to investigate the effects of mindfulness on attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder is a kind of neurodevelopmental disorder which affects different aspects of life. Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have problem with working memory, response inhibition, attention and socia...

this study examines the association of father's and mother's age with the severity of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity. participants are 470 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) diagnosed according to dsm-iv diagnostic criteria. moreover, parents reported the severity of adhd symptoms through completing adhd checklist. mother's and father's age was associated w...

objective: conners adult adhd rating scale (caars) is among the valid questionnaires for evaluating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults. the aim of this paper is to evaluate the validity of the estimation of missed answers in scoring the screening version of the conners questionnaire, and to extract its principal components. method: this study was performed on 400 participants. a...

the aim of this study was to compare marital satisfaction between parents of children with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (adhd) and parents of normal children.in this study we have selected 400 parents (200 parents of children with adhd and 200 parents of normal children), whose children age range was 6-18 years. data were collected using enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire, k...