Working Memory Training in Young ADHD Children

Working Memory Training: A Randomised Controlled Treatment Study in Young ADHD Children

Overview

Key facts that identify this study and show where it stands today.

What the study is about and why it is being run, in the researchers' own words.

Official Title: Working Memory Training: A Randomised Controlled Treatment Study in Young ADHD Children
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether working memory training improves behavioral symptoms, neurocognitive performance, and neural functioning in young children with ADHD.

The medical conditions and diseases this study investigates.

The treatments and procedures being evaluated in this study.

Who can join this study and the criteria used to decide.

Ages Eligible for Study: Child (0-17)
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Age between 4 years/6 months and 7 years/4 months

Diagnosis ADHD, classified by the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2000)

A full scale IQ >= 80

Psychopharmaca- naïve or -free

Access to a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP with internet connection and speakers at home

Exclusion Criteria:

Currently intensive (i.e. weekly) individual or group psychotherapy

Regular use of medication

Diagnosis of one or more of the following comorbid psychiatric disorders: Major depression, Bipolar disorder, Psychotic disorder, Chronically motor tic disorder or Gilles de la Tourette, Conduct disorder, any other autism spectrum disorder except for Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), Eating disorders, Anxiety disorders

Neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy) currently or in the past

Cardiovascular disease currently or in the past

Serious motor or perceptual handicap

Participation in another clinical trial simultaneously

Educational level and/ or socio-economic situation that makes it unlikely for the family to fulfil this study

How the study is designed and how its participant groups are organized.

The people to reach with questions about this study or how to join it.

No central contacts

There are no central contacts for this study.

Where the study is run and whether each site is currently recruiting.

Karakter University Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Nijmegen

Nijmegen, 6525 GC, Netherlands

The organizations and people involved in this study.

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