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KMID : 0367320050160020160
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2005 Volume.16 No. 2 p.160 ~ p.172
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NEURODEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE OF ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER(ADHD)
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Ahn Dong-Hyun
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Abstract
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in child psychiatry. The etiology or ADHD is not completely understood, but involved in genetical and/or neurocognitive deficits. This article reviews the current state of the literature pertaining to the neurodevelopmental aspects of ADHD. Although the neurodevelopment of ADHD remains unclear, emerging evidence documents its genetic and neurobiologic underpinnings. A pathophysiology of ADHD has not been fully characterized, although genetic, neurobiologic, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological studies of ADHD consistently implicates dysfunction in the fronto-subcortical network and abnormality in the dopaminergic and noradnergic systems. Furthermore some suggests that the timing of aberrant brain development in ADHD could be in early gestation and genetic and/or early environmental influences on brain development in ADHD are fixed, nonprogressive. Although many studies provide evidences for the important or psychosocial or environmental adversities in ADHD, they may be not specific predictors of ADHD but nonspecific triggers of an underlying predisposition or modifiers of the course of disorder.
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KEYWORD
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ADHD, Development, Neurobiology
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