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How to use this database.

• Method 1- uses a free natural language approach.

  After choosing the object of the search – by ticking title, abstract, aims and objective, or author - enter a term, word or name in the ‘Search’ box to return references answering your research question.

• Method 2 - utilises key words.

  Those key words assigned from thesauruses of controlled vocabulary by the trained coders of international bibliographic databases.
  The controlled vocabularies key word are listed alphanumerically under 'Bibliographic database keywords' .
  Use the drop down menu to identity which 'key words' you are interested in to return references to answer your research question.

• Method 3 - is based on the indexing system

  developed by the researchers who compiled this database.
  It adopts a thematic approach to mapping Irish child health research. The themed areas represent outcomes mapped to the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD-10) or one of 23 other health-related themed outcomes. Themes are defined in Tables 5 to 7 (of the study report).
  Use the alphabetic drop down menu under ‘ICD-10 or themed health-related outcomes’ to identity which themed areas you are interested in to select references to answer your research question.

• Method 4 – allows papers to be searched by Study type.

  Indexing by study type offers a valuable insight into understanding the population impact of the topic of interest. More than 20 study types were identified across the 2,152 study papers. These are defined in Table 3 (of the study report). Within 'Study type' papers are further stratification by geographical region (Table 49), topic area of interest and study aims and objectives.
  Click on 'Study type' to select the type of study of interest, progressively select sub-categories by topic area or other sub-classification of interest to answer your research question.

The complete background, methods and findings from this mapping exercise are detailed in the study report.

Neuropsychological Tests

Your search returns 7 documents

• 1.   Cognitive remediation in ADHD: effects of periodic non-contingent alerts on sustained attention to response

  The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of periodic non-informative alerting cues for improving sustaining attention in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  

  Abstract:

  Few studies have attempted direct cognitive remediation of attention deficits in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The present study investigated the efficacy of periodic non-informative alerting cues for improving sustaining attention in ADHD. This technique is known to improve sustained attention in right frontal injury patients and may be effective in ADHD, given that more...

  International Classification:

  Mental and behavioural disorders - Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Categories:

  non-informative alerting cues; -attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Neuropsychol Rehabil, Vol: 16 Page: 653-65 December 2006
  R. G. O'Connell; M. A. Bellgrove; P. M. Dockree; I. H. Robertson

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• 2.   Dissociation in response to methylphenidate on response variability in a group of medication naive children with ADHD

  The aim of this study was to examine effects of methylphenidate administration on variability in reaction time and error performance on a sustained attention task on medication naive children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  

  Abstract:

  Increased variability in reaction time (RT) has been proposed as a cardinal feature of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Increased variability during sustained attention tasks may reflect inefficient fronto-striatal and fronto-parietal circuitry; activity within these circuits is modulated by the catecholamines. A disruption to dopamine signaling is suggested in ADHD that more...

  International Classification:

  Mental and behavioural disorders - Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Categories:

  methylphenidate; reaction time; -attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Neuropsychologia, Vol: 46 Page: 1532-41 April 2008
  K. A. Johnson; E. Barry; M. A. Bellgrove; M. Cox; S. P. Kelly; A. Daibhis; M. Daly; M. Keavey; A. Watchorn; M. Fitzgerald; F. McNicholas; A. Kirley; I. H. Robertson; M. Gill

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• 3.   Motor and executive function at 6 years of age after extremely preterm birth

  The aim of this study was to examine the hypothesize that neuromotor and executive-function deficits may independently contribute to school failure in extreme premature birth and motor and executive function at 6 years of age

  

  Abstract:

  BACKGROUND: Studies of very preterm infants have demonstrated impairments in multiple neurocognitive domains. We hypothesized that neuromotor and executive-function deficits may independently contribute to school failure. METHODS: We studied children who were born at < or = 25 completed weeks' gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1995 at early school age. Children underwent more...

  International Classification:

  Premature - births

  Categories:

  school failure

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

  Pediatrics, Vol: 120 Page: 793-804 October 2007
  N. Marlow; E. M. Hennessy; M. A. Bracewell; D. Wolke

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• 4.   Neurologic and developmental disability after extremely preterm birth. EPICure Study Group

  The aim of this study was to examine neurologic and developmental disability in children who were born at 25 or fewer completed weeks of gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland

  

  Abstract:

  BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Small studies show that many children born as extremely preterm infants have neurologic and developmental disabilities. We evaluated all children who were born at 25 or fewer completed weeks of gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland from March through December 1995 at the time when they reached a median age of 30 months. Each child underwent a formal more...

  International Classification:

  Premature - children

  Categories:

  Neurologic and developmental disability; preterm births

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

  N Engl J Med, Vol: 343 Page: 378-84 August 2000
  N. S. Wood; N. Marlow; K. Costeloe; A. T. Gibson; A. R. Wilkinson

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• 5.   Neurologic and developmental disability at six years of age after extremely preterm birth

  The aim of the study was to compare neurologic and developmental disability at six years of age in infants born extremely preterm

  

  Abstract:

  BACKGROUND: Birth before 26 weeks of gestation is associated with a high prevalence of neurologic and developmental disabilities in the infant during the first two years of life. METHODS: We studied at the time of early school age children who had been born at 25 or fewer completed weeks of gestation in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1995. Each child had been evaluated at 30 months more...

  International Classification:

  Premature - infants

  Categories:

  neurologic and developmental disability

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

  N Engl J Med, Vol: 352 Page: 9-19 January 2005
  N. Marlow; D. Wolke; M. A. Bracewell; M. Samara

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• 6.   Reduced electrodermal response to errors predicts poor sustained attention performance in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  The aim of this study was to examine if reduced electrodermal response to errors predicts poor sustained attention performance in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  

  Abstract:

  Research into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has indicated abnormalities in electrodermal system activity (EDA) and separately, deficits in sustained attention. Here we asked whether reduced EDA in ADHD was consequential for the attention problems associated with this disorder. On a sustained attention task ADHD participants had higher overall error rates and exhibited more...

  International Classification:

  Mental and behavioural disorders - Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Categories:

  electrodermal response; -attention performance; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Neuroreport, Vol: 15 Page: 2535-8 November 2004
  R. G. O'Connell; M. A. Bellgrove; P. M. Dockree; I. H. Robertson

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• 7.   The EPICure study: growth and blood pressure at 6 years of age following extremely preterm birth

  The aim of this study was to assess study growth and blood pressure in extremely preterm children at 6 years of age

  

  Abstract:

  BACKGROUND: Preterm children are at risk for reduced growth in early childhood, which may predispose them to later changes in blood pressure (BP). OBJECTIVE: To study growth and BP in extremely preterm (EP) children at age 6 years. METHODS: Children who were born at 25 completed weeks of gestation or less in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1995 were evaluated when they reached early more...

  International Classification:

  Premature - children

  Categories:

  growth; blood pressure

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

  Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed, Vol: 93 Page: F108-14 March 2008
  M. A. Bracewell; E. M. Hennessy; D. Wolke; N. Marlow

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