ADHD children make poor decisions due to less differentiated learning processes
Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 15:12
in Psychology & Sociology
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders among school children. Pupils with ADHD often make poorer decisions than their unaffected classmates. Researchers have now discovered that different learning and decision-making mechanisms are responsible for these behaviors, and localized the underlying impairments in the brain.