Early Markers in Infants and Toddlers for Development of ADHD

Gurevitz, Mina; Geva, Ronny; Varon, Maya; Leitner, Yael

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“…Aspects of atypical cognitive control and higher variability in sensory-motor processing have been found in older diagnosed children and adults with ADHD (Cortese et al, 2012), whereas poor emotion recognition has been shown to be specific to ASD (whether comorbid with ADHD or not) and is not found in individuals with ADHD only (van der Meer et al, 2012). In contrast to the rapidly accumulating body of work in the autism field, the concept of a ‘broader phenotype’ and the utilization of a familial high-risk design have only just emerged in the ADHD field (Gurevitz, Geva, Varon, & Leitner, 2012) and it will be several years before enough evidence has accumulated to assess the specificity of risk markers across neurodevelopmental outcomes (e.g., autism in isolation, ADHD in isolation, autism with ADHD). It is also important to make sure the markers identified in infant sibs studies can also predict autism in the general population.…”

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From early markers to neuro-developmental mechanisms of autism

Gliga¹,

Jones²,

Bedford³

et al. 2014

Developmental Review

111

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Section: Future Directionsmentioning

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From early markers to neuro-developmental mechanisms of autism

Gliga¹,

Jones²,

Bedford³

et al. 2014

Developmental Review

111

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“…For instance, language impairment (i.e., difficulty learning language in the absence of frank neurological damage and mental retardation; Leonard et al, 2007) is commonly associated with both ODD and ADHD (Cohen et al, 1998), co-occurring in approximately 39% of cases (Redmond, 2004). Yet the association between DBDs and language delays has been reported in some studies (Gurevitz, Geva, Varon, & Leitner, 2012) but not in others (Rescorla, Ross, & McClure, 2007; Whitehouse, Robinson, & Zubrick, 2011). Further, normal variation in language skills and its association with DBD is understudied.…”

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Merely Misunderstood? Receptive, Expressive, and Pragmatic Language in Young Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Gremillion¹,

Martel²

2013

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Children with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) often seem to have poorer language skills compared to same-age peers; however, language as an early risk factor for DBD has received little empirical attention. The present study provides an empirical examination of associations between normal language variation and DBD by investigating receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language skills and preschool DBD symptoms. The sample consisted of 109 preschoolers ages 3 to 6 (M = 4.77 years, SD = 1.10, 59% boys; 73% with DBD, including oppositional defiant disorder [ODD] and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [ADHD]) along with their primary caregivers, who completed a clinician-administered interview, symptom questionnaires, and a questionnaire measure of pragmatic language, and teacher and/or daycare providers completed symptom questionnaires. Children completed objective tests of receptive and expressive vocabulary. Preschoolers with DBD showed poorer receptive, expressive, and pragmatic skills compared to preschoolers without DBD. Preschoolers with ADHD-only or ADHD+ODD exhibited poorer language skills, compared to ODD and non-DBD groups. Specificity analyses suggested that parent-rated hyperactivity-impulsivity were particularly associated with poorer language skills. Thus, preschoolers with DBD exhibited poorer language skills compared to preschoolers without DBD, and preschoolers with increased hyperactivity-impulsivity exhibited particular problems with language skills. This work suggests the need for early assessment of language in preschoolers, particularly those with ADHD, as well as the possible utility of tailored interventions focused on improving language skills, particularly for those with high hyperactivity-impulsivity.

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“…Higher birth weight is associated with more years of schooling and greater human capital attainment (Royer 2009), while lower birth weight is associated with increased behavioral issues, such as ADHD, especially among boys (Gurevitz et al 2014; Kelly et al 2001). Evidence suggests that LBW exacerbates other negative social processes; the negative outcomes associated with being born to a low-income, less-educated, or minority mother are stronger for LBW children than for their regular-weight peers (Hack et al 1995).…”

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Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts

Robertson

O’Brien

2018

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New estimates of intergenerational economic mobility reveal substantial variation in the spatial distribution of opportunity in the United States. Efforts to explain this variation in economic mobility have conspicuously omitted health despite it being a key pathway for the transmission of economic position across generations. We begin to fill this gap in the literature by examining the relationship between health endowment at birth and intergenerational economic mobility across county birth cohorts in the United States, drawing on estimates from two population-level data sets. Exploiting variation across counties and over time, we find a negative relationship between the incidence of low-weight births and the level of economic mobility as measured in adulthood for the county birth cohorts in our sample. Our results build on a large and growing literature detailing the role of early childhood health in the transmission of economic status across generations and suggest that the incidence of low-weight births is negatively associated with intergenerational economic mobility.

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Early Markers in Infants and Toddlers for Development of ADHD

Abstract: This study highlights early risk markers in infants and toddlers that may predict the development of ADHD.

Cited by 97 publications

References 42 publications

From early markers to neuro-developmental mechanisms of autism

From early markers to neuro-developmental mechanisms of autism

Merely Misunderstood? Receptive, Expressive, and Pragmatic Language in Young Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts

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