Projects
Bilateral Alliance for Translational Science in ADHD (BATSA) Ghent University
Research collaboration between the University of Southampton and Ghent University in the field of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). BATSU is organized around three inter-related research programs (i) genetic and environmental determinants of ADHD (ii) electrophysiological studies of brain attentional mechanisms in ADHD and (iii) reward and delay processing in ADHD: Experimental and imaging approaches.
ADHD and ASD in higher education: Selecting and implementing effective reasonable accommodations KU Leuven
An increasing number of students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) enrol in higher education. However, these students struggle throughout their academic career due to specific disorder-related functioning and participation problems. These problems emerge in interaction with the environment of higher education. To neutralise this negative effect of the context of higher education, students ...
The neurocognitive development of preschoolers at risk for dyslexia and ADHD KU Leuven
Up until now, research on the cognitive precursors of dyslexia has merely focused on children with a family or cognitive risk for dyslexia. However, a substantially large group of these children also have a behavioral risk for ADHD. To date, far too little studies paid attention to this double risk group, as most dyslexia studies excluded children with an additional risk for ADHD. This doctoral project firstly aims to close the gap by ...
The Neurobiological Basis Of State Regulation Deficits in ADHD Ghent University
The overall objective of this research is to identify the neural basis of State Regulation Deficits in children with ADHD. This will be achieved by a series of functional imaging and electrophysiological studies comparing brain activations of individuals with and without ADHD under changing task demands known to change levels of task related activation and arousal from optimal to sub-optimal states.
Executive functioning, self-efficacy and treatment participation of cocaine dependent individuals with and without ADHD Ghent University
The aim of this study is to investigate the differences in the neuropsychological profile and several treatment related variables (self-efficacy, therapeutic alliance) between cocaine dependent individuals with comorbid ADHD vs these cocaine dependent individuals without ADHD and the role of these neuropsychological and treatment related variables on addiction treatment outcome.
Getting real with response inhibition – characterizing pure inhibitory function in healthy participants and people with ADHD Ghent University
Response inhibition is a crucial cognitive-control function, which is derailed in important clinical disorders. Typically, it is characterized using the Stop-signal task. Here, we highlight one largely ignored (but crucial) limitation to its interpretability (‘trigger failures’). We will systematically explore which factors determine their frequency, how to counteract their occurrence, and apply this to a highly relevant clinical group ...
Error awareness in ADHD: The role of insula Ghent University
There is increasing evidence that deficient error awareness plays an important role in the self-regulation problems associated with ADHD. Research has shown that the insula, which is a part of the salience network, is critically involved in error awareness. In the current project, we will evaluate whether dysfunction in the insula may underly the deficit in error awareness in ADHD.
Self-regulation in ADHD: learning from errors. Ghent University
The proposed project aims at gaining more insight in the error monitoring deficit in ADHD, by filling the gaps in the current research literature. Firstly, we will investigate whether this deficit persists into adulthood. Secondly, the heterogeneity of ADHD will be taken into account. Lastly, we will examine the relationship between this dificit and daily functioning.