Recently completed automated analyses of brain anatomy in 152 children and adolescents with ADHD and 139 age- and sexmatched controls revealed highly significant global decreases in overall cerebral volume in patients, which were statistically comparable in all four lobes, and which were statistically more prominent only in cerebellum. 27 Conclusions Although most, studies have used small samples and quantitative methodology is still evolving, anatomic MRI studies support, the notion that a distributed circuit underlies some of the manifestations of ADHD.
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Anatomic magnetic resonance imaging studies of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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