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Do hyperactive children have motor organization and/or execution deficits? 1998

P W Leung, and K J Connolly

Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories.

Hyperactive children have been described as motorically clumsy. To explore the validity of this assertion, an experiment using the additive factor method was designed to examine motor organization and execution in hyperactive children. Four groups of boys aged 7 to 8 years took part in the study: (1) a pure hyperactive (HA) group, N=20; (2) a pure conduct-disordered (CD) group, N=18; (3) a mixed hyperactive/conduct-disordered (HA+CD) group, N=12; (4) a normal (N) control group, N=22. While the small sample size precluded a definitive conclusion, the results indicated that neither HA nor CD children showed any motor organization or execution deficit in a simple sequential key-tapping task. Given previous findings indicating that hyperactive children show deficits in more complex motor coordination skills, the generalizability of our negative results needs to be examined on other more complex tasks.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D009043	Motor Activity	Body movements of a human or an animal as a behavioral phenomenon.	Activities, Motor,Activity, Motor,Motor Activities
D009048	Motor Skills	Performance of complex motor acts.	Motor Skill,Skill, Motor,Skills, Motor
D009483	Neuropsychological Tests	Tests designed to assess neurological function associated with certain behaviors. They are used in diagnosing brain dysfunction or damage and central nervous system disorders or injury.	Aphasia Tests,Cognitive Test,Cognitive Testing,Cognitive Tests,Memory for Designs Test,Neuropsychological Testing,AX-CPT,Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome,CANTAB,Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery,Clock Test,Cognitive Function Scanner,Continuous Performance Task,Controlled Oral Word Association Test,Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System,Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment,Hooper Visual Organization Test,NEPSY,Neuropsychologic Tests,Neuropsychological Test,Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test,Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status,Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure,Symbol Digit Modalities Test,Test of Everyday Attention,Test, Neuropsychological,Tests, Neuropsychological,Tower of London Test,Neuropsychologic Test,Test, Cognitive,Testing, Cognitive,Testing, Neuropsychological,Tests, Cognitive
D011596	Psychomotor Disorders	Abnormalities of motor function that are associated with organic and non-organic cognitive disorders.	Psychomotor Impairment,Developmental Psychomotor Disorders,Psychomotor Disorders, Developmental,Developmental Psychomotor Disorder,Impairment, Psychomotor,Impairments, Psychomotor,Psychomotor Disorder, Developmental,Psychomotor Impairments
D011930	Reaction Time	The time from the onset of a stimulus until a response is observed.	Response Latency,Response Speed,Response Time,Latency, Response,Reaction Times,Response Latencies,Response Times,Speed, Response,Speeds, Response
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002653	Child Behavior Disorders	Disturbances considered to be pathological based on age and stage appropriateness, e.g., conduct disturbances and anaclitic depression. This concept does not include psychoneuroses, psychoses, or personality disorders with fixed patterns.	Childhood Behavior Disorders,Behavior Disorder, Child,Behavior Disorder, Childhood,Child Behavior Disorder,Childhood Behavior Disorder,Disorder, Childhood Behavior
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man