{"id":2764,"date":"2014-08-14T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2014-08-14T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T16:16:36","slug":"the-missing-link-between-adhd-substance-abuse-and-behaviour-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-missing-link-between-adhd-substance-abuse-and-behaviour-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing link between ADHD, substance abuse and behaviour problems<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have found that ADHD, substance abuse and conduct disorder develop from the same neurocognitive deficits, which in turn explains why they often occur together. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Using personality and behavior tests coupled with fMRI brain scans on 1,778 European adolescents at age 14, they identified three neurocognitive dimensions in different part of the brains that were tied to all three disorders: impulsive action, impulsive choice (valuing immediate rewards over delayed rewards) and reward anticipation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The researchers now hope to devise interventions in teenagers that could target these brain areas before psychiatric symptoms appear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajp.psychiatryonline.org\/article.aspx?articleID=1892817\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0the\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">American Journal of Psychiatry\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>July\u00a030, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Patricia Conrod, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that ADHD, substance abuse and conduct disorder develop from the same neurocognitive deficits, which in turn explains why they often occur together. Using personality and behavior tests coupled with fMRI brain scans on 1,778 European adolescents at age 14, they identified three neurocognitive dimensions in different part of the brains that were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1000,1508,849,2115],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-mental-health","tag-psychology","tag-quebec-en","tag-substance-abuse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-IA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}