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Predicting Adhd Symptoms In Adolescents Using Error-Related Brain Potentials, Amber Schwartz, Jessica Tipsord, Brittany Alperin, Sarah Karalunas

Student Research Symposium

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood disorder, but its clinical course varies widely. It is unclear why some individuals experience a remission of their ADHD symptoms across development while others have symptoms persist into adulthood. Performance monitoring, which involves the ability to recognize errors and make behavioral adjustments, is one aspect of self-regulation that may contribute to symptom change. Both early (e.g,. error-related negativity, ERN) and later (e.g., error-related positivity, Pe) stages of performance monitoring can be quantified via event-related potentials, which reflect electrical brain activity in response to errors. Better performance monitoring, as indicated by larger amplitude …