Study reveals varied response times for tasks, though answers were still correct. Compared with other children, those with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have more inconsistent responses when doing short-term memory tasks, a new study finds. "Our study helps explain why working memory may be fine at one moment and poor at another, just as one day a child with ADHD seems to be able to learn and focus in class and on another day seems distracted and not paying attention," study author Julie Schweitzer, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis, said in a news release from the school. The study was done while Schweitzer was at the University of Maryland. "We think poor working memory is a characteristic present in many children and adults with ADHD," she said. The study included 25 children with ADHD and 25 children without the disorder. All of them performed a computer task involving numbers an
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