wk 14, lec 1 Flashcards
onset of ADHD
< 12 years old
ADHD definition
- Diminished sustained attention
- Increased impulsivity or hyperactivity
3 presentations of ADHD
o Predominately inattentive presentation
o Predominantly hyperactive/impulsive presentation
o Combined presentation
DSM-V criteria of ADHD for kids and adolescents
o Symptoms > 6 months and prior to age 12,
Usually need to be present in 2+ settings i.e. school and home
Interferes with social, school, or work
Predomiannetly inattentive: 6+ symptoms of inattentive and few of hypreactive
Predominantely hyperactive: 6+ symptoms of hyperactive and few of inattentive
Combined: 6+ symptoms for both
o Inattentive symptoms: poor attention, cant focus, don’t follow through on tasks, poor organization, forgetful, procrastinate…
o Hyperactive/impulsive symptoms: fidgety, cant stay seated, blurt out answers, interrupts…
ADHD in kids vs adults
- Adult presentation is different than kids
o New onset ADHD in adulthood is uncommon… does it even exist? Maybe kids masked symptoms
o High rate comorbid with mood disorder
DSM-V criteria in adults for ADHD
o Inattentive: careless mistakes, no attention, doesn’t follow instruction, poor schedule and meet deadline, procrastinate
o Hyperactive: leave seat during meetings, blurt out answers, struggle to stay quiet, talk excessively, restless
o Only need 5+ criteria, not 6 like kids
DSM for ADHD in kids vs adults
kids need 6 symptoms adults need 5
what brain region in ADHD causes deficits in inhibiting motor response
deficits in frontal cortex (executive function), dorsal striatum (caudate) and thalamus
deficits in attention in ADHD from which brain regions
putamen, PFC, and thalamus
challenge with temporal perception (timing) in ADHD because of
frontal cortex, caudate, putamen, thalamus, parietal regions and cerebellum
which pathway related to enhanced reward anticipation is changed in ADHD
– similar to substance use pathways (ventral striatum, VTA)
o More immediate reward than delayed
default mode netowk and alerting mode network in ADHD
- Default mode network (at rest): medial PFC and posterior cingulate cortex
- Altering mode network (attention): frontal and parietal cortex, thalamus
which receptors are targeted by stimulants medication in ADHD
- D1 receptors and alpha-adrenoreceptors are impacted by stimulant medications
o Stimulant medications change amount of dopamine uptake transporters
which side of the brain is ADHD lateralized to
the right, doesnt affect the left
time line in substance use disorder
chronic and relapsing
morbidity and mortality in substance use disorder
o High morbidity and mortality from overdose or infections, CVD, hepatic, neoplastic and psychiatric and social and employment
substance use disorder definition
- Drug seeking and taking
- Loss of control over drug intake
- Negative affect when access to drug is withheld
3 stages of addiction
- acute reinforcement and drug use
- escalation of drug use/dependence
- late stage- withdrawal/incubation/relapse
acute reinforcement and drug use stage in addiction
a. Substance activates same neurological systems for motivation and drive for natural reinforcers (i.e. food)
stage 2 escalation of drug use/dependence in addiction
what functions undergo changes
a. Long term changes to brain regions and form habit
b. Executive function and inhibitory control undergo deleterious changes
late stage in addiction- withdrawal/incubation/relapse
what increases the relapse chances
a. Changes to networks in reward and executive function increase likelihood of relapse in certain cues (i.e. social, environmental, stress and having small amounts of substance)
key brain areas in substance use
- Midbrain – ventral tegmental area (VTA) – dopaminergic
- Nucleus accumbens (NA) – part of the ventral striatum (basal ganglia) – GABA or acetylcholine
- Amygdala – rostral to the hippocampus
- Hippocampus
- Prefrontal cortex
- Dorsal striatum
o i.e. putamen, caudate (basal ganglia)
which brain area in substance use for dopamine
VTA
which brain area for GABA and acetylcholine in substance use
nucleus accumbens
which pathway is for reward
mesocorticolimbic pathway
which pathway is for emotion regulation, executive function and cognitive control
mesocortical pathway
mesocorticolimbic pathway (reward)? which NT?
o VTA nucleus accumbens reinforce and reward
Drugs cause increase dopamine release from VTA
- Mesocortical pathway (emotion regulation, executive function, cognitive control)
o VTA NA ventral pallidum pré-frontal córtex
drugs affect reward system
- Drugs hijack reward system
o Less reward from usual reward- eliciting stimuli
which brain area is typically for habit formation and movement regulation but is altered to be a reward pathway in substance use
dorsal striatum