title: Decision making in children with ADHD only, ADHD-anxious/depressed, and control children using a child version of the Iowa Gambling Task.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The goal of this study is to investigate decision making in children with ADHD using a child version of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). The effect of internalizing symptoms is also of interest.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-one children with ADHD (high anxiety/depression and no anxiety/depression) are compared to an age- and sex-matched control group on the gambling task. Children in the ADHD-alone group demonstrate impaired performance on the IGT. In contrast, children in the control group and the ADHD-anxiety/depression group learn to choose more from the advantageous decks over time.
  
  
  RESULTS
  These findings of impaired decision making in children with ADHD parallel findings of real-life decision-making problems in this population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Furthermore, the findings suggest that having a high number of internalizing symptoms leads to better performance for children with ADHD on this variant of the IGT.
authors.affiliation: Autism Research Centre, Dalhousie University, Nova, Canada. nancy.garon@iwk.nshealth.ca
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Garon
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Waschbusch
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003657:Decision Making; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005715:Gambling; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors