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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Comprehensive Overview of the Mechanistic Insights from Human Studies to Animal Models

2025· preprint· en· W4413183984 on OpenAlexfundno aff
M Yacoub, Sophia Smith, Badra Abbas, Fahad Iqbal, Cham Maher Othman Jazieh, Nada Al Shaer, Collin Luk, Naweed I. Syed

Bibliographic record

VenuePreprints.org · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsAttention deficit hyperactivity disorderPsychologyAttention deficitAnimal modelNeuroscienceCognitive psychologyPsychiatryMedicine

Abstract

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition marked by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Despite its considerable global prevalence, key gaps remain in our understanding of the structural and molecular changes underlying ADHD which complicate adult diagnosis, as symptoms present differently from those observed during childhood ADHD. On the other hand, while psychostimulants effectively mitigate some symptoms, significant controversy surrounds their long term effects on cognition, learning and memory, and day to day living. Moreover, our understanding of how various medications given to alleviate ADHD symptoms during pregnancy impact the developing fetal brain also remains largely unexplored. Here, we discuss the subtle differences between ADHD in children and adults and how these symptoms alter brain development and maturation. We further examine changes in monoamine signaling in ADHD and how psychostimulant and non pharmacological treatments modulate these neural networks. We evaluate and discuss findings as they pertain to the long term use of ADHD medications, including in utero exposure, on cognitive outcomes and contextualize these findings with mechanistic insights from animal models.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.323
GPT teacher head0.437
Teacher spread0.114 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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