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This presentation will focus on the development of medical treatments for ADHD. The
pharmacotherapy of ADHD will be presented in a historical context, starting with Bradley’s use of
benzedrine and ending with novel agents in development. The historical perspective provides a
natural framework to illustrate the ways in which the theoretical constructs of ADHD guided drug
development and, conversely, the ways that pharmacological research influenced neurotransmitter
models of the disorder. Age and gender issues will also be discussed in terms of treatment. This
paper will review what medications work, for whom they work, and why they work..
3011.4 Multimodal interventions for ADHD: Moderators and mediators of treatment response,
S. Hinshaw, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Combining medication plus behavioral intervention provides clinically significant benefit for
children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Data from the Multimodal
Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA Study) reveal that combination treatments
(careful medication management plus intensive behavior therapy) provide maximum benefit for
key impairments related to ADHD. Also discussed are (a) key moderators of treatment outcome
comorbid anxiety disorders, parental depression, and severity of ADHD symptomatology; and (b)
mediators of outcome especially, reduction in parental negative/ineffective discipline, which was
associated with normalization of disruptive behavior at school when multimodal (combination)
treatments were utilized.
3012 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Age-related differences in human memory
Convener and Chair: F. Craik, Canada
3012.1 Different neural routes to picture memory with age, D. Park, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
There is evidence that picture memory remains remarkable preserved with age. Despite this age
invariance, in a series of studies, we investigated difference in neural activations underlying
picture memory in old and young adults. We report evidence that hippocampal function is
compromised with age, and that older adults show increased activation in frontal cortex. These
increased activations occur only for remembered items, suggesting that the frontal recruitment is
compensatory.
3012.2 Age differences in brain activation during emotional processing: Converging evidence
from perception and memory, L. Bäckman 1 , J. Sandblom 2 , J. Gavazzeni 1 , L. Nyberg 3 , P.
Fransson 2 , C.I. Wright 4 , M. Ingvar 2 , H. Fischer 1 , 1 Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;
2 3 4
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; University of Umeå, Sweden; Massachusetts General
Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
In an event-related fMRI study, young and older adults studied emotional and neutral face pictures
under incidental learning conditions. The young showed greater activation in right amygdala and
hippocampus, whereas older adults showed greater activation in the right insular and prefrontal
cortices, for successfully remembered fearful faces. The activation patterns for neutral faces were
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