Executive function deficits contribute to poor theory of mind abilities in adults with ADHD

Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test: Relationship with Neurocognition and Facial Emotion Recognition in Non-Clinical Youths

“…It has been consistently reported in more recent meta-analysis study. 11 The correlation between neurocognitive function and RMET was also observed in recent studies involving various clinically-ill patients groups, such as Autism spectrum disorder, 11 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, 21 and dementia. 22 Reasoning by analogy is the ability to understand rules and build abstractions by integrating relationships based on non-social visual information.…”

Neural Correlates of Theory of Mind in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and the Comorbid Condition

“…In ADHD, social cognition, and mentalizing deficits are increasingly reported, mostly in children (35)(36)(37)(38)(39) but also in adults (40)(41)(42)(43), albeit not as consistently as in ASD (8). For the adult age group particularly, recent studies have reported intact mentalizing in ADHD, who are instead impaired in empathy and in their ability for generating solutions for social problems (44,45).…”

The other side of the screen: The impact of perspective‐taking on adolescents’ online communication

“…To measure cognitive flexibility, participants completed the Trail Making Test Part A and B (TMT; Army Individual Test Battery, 1944). The TMT is frequently utilized in research settings and for purposes of neuropsychological assessment (Tatar & Cansız, 2020;Beddoes et al, 2020;Sartori et al, 2020). In Part A, participants are asked to connect a series of 25 circles, with a number ranging from 1-25 written in each circle.…”