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Evidence that maternal mental health might be important also comes from replicated findings that maternal stress during pregnancy may play a role, possibly via its effects on cortisol secretion (O’Connor 21 et al. 2003). Peri-natal factors have also been implicated with a twofold increase in ADHD in very low birthweight children and an increased rate of pregnancy and birth complications in ADHD individuals (Taylor and Rogers 2005). Factors within the post-natal environment seem also to play a role.
Indeed, deficits in executive and non-executive processes and motivational and energetic processes are relatively modest when seen at the level of diagnostic group as a whole, and each type of deficit therefore may affect only a minority of cases. In one relevant study, Solanto and colleagues (200) found that delay aversion and executive dysfunction were unrelated constructs each implicated in the disorder, but each affecting a different subsection of ADHD individuals. Following on from this, a number of multiple pathway or process models have been proposed to account for these sort of data.
200) Atypical default network connectivity in youth with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder. Biological Psychiatry 68: 084–9. Faraone SV, Perlis RH, Doyle AE, et al. (2005). Molecular genetics of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biol Psychiatry, 57: 33–23. Fusar-Poli P, Rubia K, Rossi G, et al. (202). Striatal Dopamine Transporter Alterations in ADHD: Pathophysiology or Adaptation to Psychostimulants? A Meta-Analysis. Am J Psych, 69: 264–27. Hebebrand J, Dempfle A, Saar K, et al.
