Neurophysiological correlates of delinquent behaviour in adult subjects with ADHD

Meier, Nadja M; Perrig, Walter J.; Koenig, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.12.011

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“…Our review only identified two studies that compared CPT performance between offenders and controls (Kavanagh, Rowe, Hersch, Barnett, & Reznik, ; Meier, Perrig, & Koenig, ). Both studies found that the offender groups made a higher percentage of inhibitory errors on the CPT compared with non‐offender healthy controls.…”

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Technological advances in the assessment of impulse control in offenders: A systematic review

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Morris

et al. 2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Deficits in impulse control have been linked to criminal offending, risk of recidivism, and other maladaptive behaviours relevant to the criminal justice system (e.g. substance use). Impulse control can be conceptualized as encompassing the broad domains of response inhibition and impulsive/risky decision‐making. Advancements in technology have led to the development of computerized behavioural measures to assess performance in these domains, such as go/no‐go and delay discounting tasks. Despite a relatively large literature examining these tasks in offenders, findings are not universally consistent. This systematic review aims to synthesize the literature using computerized neurocognitive tasks to assess two domains of impulse control in offenders: response inhibition and impulsive/risky decision‐making. The review included 28 studies from diverse geographic locations, settings, and offender populations. The results largely support the general conclusion that offenders exhibit deficits in impulse control compared with non‐offenders, with studies of response inhibition more consistently reporting differences than studies using impulsive and risky decision‐making tasks. Findings are discussed in the context of contemporary neuroimaging research emphasizing dysfunction in prefrontal cortex as a key contributor to impulse control deficits in offenders.

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Technological advances in the assessment of impulse control in offenders: A systematic review

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Morris

et al. 2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…The present study was conducted with the same subjects as our previous study, which focused on event-related potentials [12]. Subjects with ADHD symptomatology were recruited in the framework of the EU COST action B27 ‘electric neuronal oscillations and cognition', and delinquents with ADHD symptoms were selected from three different prisons in Switzerland.…”

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“…In a previous study investigating event-related potentials in nondelinquent and delinquent adult subjects with ADHD symptoms [12], we suggested that ADHD symptomatology may actually be a risk factor for delinquency, since stimulus-processing deficits found in subjects with ADHD symptoms were even more pronounced in delinquents with ADHD symptomatology. However, our results proposed additional risk factors consisting of deviant higher-order visual processing, especially of facial affect, as well as abnormalities in monitoring and evaluative functions of response inhibition.…”

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Is Excessive Electroencephalography Beta Activity Associated with Delinquent Behavior in Men with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptomatology?

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Perrig²,

Koenig³

2014

Neuropsychobiology

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Background/Aims: The attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) shows an increased prevalence in delinquents compared to the normal population. In recent studies, a subgroup of subjects with ADHD as well as a subgroup of delinquents displayed excessive electroencephalography (EEG) beta activity, which has been associated with antisocial behavior in ADHD children. We investigated whether delinquent behavior in adults with ADHD symptomatology is related to excessive beta activity. Methods: We compared the resting state EEGs (eyes open/closed) of delinquent and nondelinquent subjects with ADHD symptoms and those of a control group regarding EEG power spectra and topography. Results: Delinquents with ADHD symptomatology showed more beta power at frontal, central and parietal brain regions than nondelinquents with ADHD symptoms. Conclusion: Excessive beta power may thus represent a risk factor for delinquent behavior in adults with ADHD symptomatology. The awareness of such a risk factor may be helpful in the assessment of the risk for delinquent behavior in a psychiatric context and may provide a neurobiological background for therapeutic interventions. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel

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“…ms) resolution that can be used to characterize neuronal activity during such tasks. Thus, electrophysiological measures such as the event‐related potentials (ERPs) (Bokura, Yamaguchi & Kobayashi, ; Falkenstein, Hoormann & Hohnsbein, ; Pfefferbaum, Ford, Weller & Kopell, ) and microstate analysis (Meier, Perrig & Koenig, ; Michel, Koenig & Brandeis., ; Schiller, Gianotti, Nash & Knoch, ; Strik, Fallgatter, Brandeis & Pascual‐Marqui, ) have been widely used in studies of executive function in the Go/No‐Go task.…”

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Event‐related potential differences in children supplemented with long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids during infancy

Liao

McCandliss

Carlson

et al. 2016

Developmental Science

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Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) have been shown to be necessary for early retinal and brain development, but long-term cognitive benefits of LCPUFA in infancy have not been definitively established. The present study sought to determine whether LCPUFA supplementation during the first year of life would result in group differences in behavior and event-related potentials (ERPs) while performing a task requiring response inhibition (Go/No-Go) at 5.5 years of age. As newborns, 69 children were randomly assigned to infant formulas containing either no LCPUFA (control) or formula with 0.64% of total fatty acids as arachidonic acid (ARA; 20:4n6) and various concentrations of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n3) (0.32%, 0.64% or 0.96%) for the first 12 months of life. At 5.5 years of age, a task designed to test the ability to inhibit a prepotent response (Go/No-Go) was administered, yielding both event-related potentials (ERPs) and behavioral data. Behavioral measures did not differentiate between groups, although reaction times of supplemented children were marginally faster. Unsupplemented children had lower P2 amplitude than supplemented children to both Go and No-Go conditions. N2 amplitude was significantly higher on No-Go trials than Go trials, but only for supplemented children, resulting in a significant Group X Condition interaction. Topographical analysis of the ERPs revealed that the LCPUFA-supplemented group developed a novel period of synchronous activation (microstate) involving wider anterior brain activation around 200 ms; this microstate was not present in controls. These findings suggest that LCPUFA supplementation during the first 12 months of life exerts a developmental programming effect that is manifest in brain electrophysiology.

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Neurophysiological correlates of delinquent behaviour in adult subjects with ADHD

Cited by 35 publications

References 57 publications

Technological advances in the assessment of impulse control in offenders: A systematic review

Technological advances in the assessment of impulse control in offenders: A systematic review

Is Excessive Electroencephalography Beta Activity Associated with Delinquent Behavior in Men with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptomatology?

Event‐related potential differences in children supplemented with long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids during infancy

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