“The cortex of the brain is thin, and many changes have been seen in the fine structure of the frontal lobe among the white matter”
“ADHD is proving to be a neurological disorder that causes changes in the structure and function of the brain”
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Getty Image Bank
‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’ (ADHD) is a type of mental disorder where attention is particularly low, distracting, and hyperactive behavior, and poor impulse control and behavior control. This disease is common in children and young people, but today it is also common in adults.
However, a study has found that the brains of children suffering from ADHD show changes in almost every area, unlike what was previously known.
The research team argues that this shows that ADHD is not a simple behavioral symptom, but a neurological disorder that causes changes in the neural structure and functioning of the brain.
According to a UPI report on the 23rd, a research team at Yale University School of Medicine (lead author: Lin Huang) compared and analyzed brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of 7,805 children in the study of ‘Cognitive Development of the Adolescent Brain’ and found this fact.
The ABCD data, the longest-running study of children’s brain development in the United States, also included 1,800 children with ADHD.
As a result of the analysis, the research team revealed that the brains of children with ADHD have abnormal neural connections in areas that process memory and auditory information, and that the cerebral cortex is generally thinner than that of normal children.
In addition, many changes were seen in the microstructure of the white matter, especially in the frontal lobe.
The cerebral cortex is a collection of nerve cells located on the surface of the cerebrum, the white matter is the inner part of the brain where the nerve fiber network that connects nerve cells is placed, and the frontal lobe controls inattention and impulsive behavior, two representative symptoms of ADHD are the part
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Getty Image Bank
In studies on brain changes in children with ADHD published so far, changes were only found in a few specific areas, but in this study, changes were seen in the entire brain area, explained the research team.
This shows that ADHD is not a simple behavioral symptom on the outside, but a neurological disorder that causes changes in the neural structure and functioning of the brain, the research team noted.
The research team predicted that this new discovery could open the way to diagnosing and treating ADHD and monitoring its progress through neuroimaging machine learning beyond the subjective diagnosis of doctors.
The research team explained that machine learning, artificial intelligence, will be able to make an objective and reliable diagnosis of ADHD by analyzing vast amounts of brain MRI image data.
The findings will be presented next week at the 108th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago.
Lee Seung-gu Online News Reporter lee_owl@segye.com
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