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01-12-2019 | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Original Article

Interoceptive awareness in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Authors: Katrin Kutscheidt, Thomas Dresler, Justin Hudak, Beatrix Barth, Friederike Blume, Thomas Ethofer, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Ann-Christine Ehlis

Published in: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders | Issue 4/2019

Abstract

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder normally diagnosed in childhood and persisting into adulthood in up to two-thirds of the patients. Its core symptoms comprise inattention and hyperactive–impulsive behaviours. Several studies suggest that patients with ADHD show alterations in self-regulation and self-monitoring. So far, it has not been described whether these deficits also affect the awareness of one’s own bodily signals, that is, interoceptive awareness. To investigate possible alterations in interoceptive awareness, 14 adult patients with ADHD and 16 healthy controls performed a heartbeat detection task, in which they had to count their heartbeat without any external help (e.g. visualization on a screen). As an indicator of the individual interoceptive awareness ability, a score based on the comparison between recorded and counted heart beats was calculated. Our results showed that patients with ADHD performed significantly worse on this task than controls, which indicates that they were less aware of internal bodily signals while additionally experiencing deficits in regulating and monitoring their own (overt) behaviours.

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Title: Interoceptive awareness in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Authors: Katrin Kutscheidt
Thomas Dresler
Justin Hudak
Beatrix Barth
Friederike Blume
Thomas Ethofer
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Ann-Christine Ehlis
Publication date: 01-12-2019
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Keywords: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Published in: ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1866-6116
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6647
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12402-019-00299-3

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