Differences between children with ADHD and healthy controls on electroencephalographic and continuous performance test measures. An exploratory study and assessment of its diagnostic value

Abstract

[eng] Lack of objective measures, together with high prevalence figures, make of ADHD one of the most controvert diagnosis in clinical child psychology nowadays. The following paper presents an exploratory study, using a commercial EEG plus the vigilance task CSAT, to look for discriminant differences on EEG and CPT measures between ADHD and healthy controls. EEG’ theta-alpha/beta ratio and CSAT’ index of attention d’ showed good discriminant power, and specially good specificity and positive predictive power.