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MRI Investigations in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and High Potential (HP) Children for a Better Therapeutic Approach

MRI Investigations in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and High Potential (HP) Children for a Better Therapeutic Approach

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02823782
Acronym
HP
Enrollment
74
Registered
2016-07-06
Start date
2013-05-31
Completion date
2015-02-28
Last updated
2016-07-06

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Conditions

ADHD

Keywords

Laminar HP, Complex HP

Brief summary

Impulsivity and/or hyperactivity in children has become one of the main clinical symptom for consultation, among the most frequent, in general or pediatric medicine. Among the different clinical forms of instability, ADHD appears to be an especially disabling condition for the development of the child, both in psychomotor, cognitive, emotional and relational aspects. Further, a significant link between ADHD children and some children with High Potential (HP) is observed. HP children show overall ahead cognitive developments compared to children with the same age. In these children, as well as in children with ADHD, an attention vulnerability, psychomotor deficits are noted, as well as emotional and relational deficits that significantly contrasted with some of their cognitive skills. Regarding the HP, the hypothesis is that children with significantly heterogeneous results (Complex) to the Wechsler IV scales are affected by this shift, and hence, by the difficulty of a differential diagnosis with ADHD, unlike those whose intelligence quotient (IQ) results that are more homogeneous (Laminar). The goal of this work was to study a population of 80 children aged from 8 to 12 years (20 subjects per group) to evaluate the functional and structural brain development by: * Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) acquisitions with cognitive stimulations, involving attention, working memory and semantic processing, and emotional stimulations, * fMRI acquisitions at rest (without activation), * diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) acquisitions, * 3D anatomic acquisitions. Identification of developmental differences in certain cortical brain areas (eg, prefrontal vs parietal), white matter fiber bundles or functional networks preferentially used by one or other of these groups, will help to better understand this disease, and to improve the differential diagnosis in order to implement a more appropriate and personalized management of the patients via new therapeutic strategies.

Interventions

OTHERMRI

MRI and neuropsychological assessment planned for the study for patient and volunteers

OTHERneuropsychological assessment

Sponsors

Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
8 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Right-hand 4 groups : * Laminar HP : IQ \> 130 and difference between Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) and Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) \< 9 * Complex HP : IQ \> 130 and difference between VCI and PRI \>15 * ADHD : 90 \< IQ \<110 * Controls : 90 \< IQ \<110

Exclusion criteria

* Subjects with any psychiatric disorders except ADHD, * Subjects with known learning deficits (dyslexia, dysphasia…), attention deficits except for ADHD group * Subjects with claustrophobia or magnetic devices * Children with out both parental agreements

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Cortical gray matter (GM) volumesDay 1using the software VBM (Voxel Based Morphometry)
Microstructural connectivity of white matter (WM) fiber bundlesDay 1measured by diffusion tensor imaging. Diffusion metrics maps are compared using the software TBSS (Track Based Spatial Statistics),
Functional MRI activity during cognitive testsDay 1using the software SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping)
Functional connectivity in resting-state fMRIDay 1using the CONN toolbox (functional connectivity toolbox) of SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping)
Subcortical gray matter (GM) volumesDay 1using the software VBM (Voxel Based Morphometry)
Functional MRI activity during emotional testsDay 1using the software SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping)

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026