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    • Rojas-Líbano, Daniel; Wainstein, Gabriel; Carrasco, Ximena; Aboitiz, Francisco; Crossley, Nicolás; Ossandón, Tomás (NLM (Medline), 2019)
      Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed based on observed behavioral outcomes alone. Given that some brain attentional networks involve circuits that control the eye pupil, we monitored pupil size in ...
    • Carrasco, Ximena; Daiber, Francisca; Rothhammer Achondo, Paula; Huerta, Daniela; Andrade, Claudia; Opazo, Patricia; Lagos, Liza Paz; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Aboitiz, Francisco (2012)
      Background: The assessment of Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among ethnic groups may reveal environmental or cultural variables that influence the appearance of this disorder. Aim: To assess the presence ...
    • Jaque López, Javier; López, Vladimir; Rojas, Daniel; Carrasco, Ximena; Rothhammer Achondo, Paula; García, Ricardo; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Aboitiz, Francisco (2004)
      Although there is extensive literature about the effects of stimulants on sustained attention tasks in attentional deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about the effect of these drugs on other attentional ...
    • Ortega, Rodrigo; López, Vladimir; Carrasco, Ximena; Anllo-Vento, Lourdes; Aboitiz, Francisco (2013)
      Visual spatial orienting of attention towards exogenous cues has been one of the attentional functions considered to be spared in ADHD. Here we present a design in which 60 (30 ADHD) children, age: 10.9±1.4, were asked to ...
    • Carrasco, Ximena; López, Vladimir; Aboitiz, Francisco (2005)
      In the target article, Sagvolden and collaborators propose that attentional-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the result of a general behavioral deficit which is mainly caused by a hypofunctioning mesolimbic ...
    • Aboitiz, Francisco; Ossandón, Tomás; Zamorano, Francisco; Palma, Bárbara; Carrasco, Ximena (Frontiers Media, 2014)
      A cardinal symptom of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a general distractibility where children and adults shift their attentional focus to stimuli that are irrelevant to the ongoing behavior. This ...
    • Lagos, Liza Paz; Silva, Claudio; Rothhammer Achondo, Paula; Carrasco, Ximena; Llop Romero, Elena; Aboitiz, Francisco; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (2011)
      Background: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common, highly heritable neurobiological disorder of childhood onset, characterized by hyperactivity, impulsiveness or inattentiveness. Aim: To search for ...