Are young females with ADHD masking the signs of their condition? Developing digital/informatic techniques to identify and uncover hidden impairme

我们的目标是：(I)找出小学年龄女孩存在自我调节问题的迹象，并开发和验证可与标准的ADHD措施一起使用的简短问卷，以筛查有可能患上ADHD的女性。(Ii)使用Qbtech技术，通过实验研究认知负荷对被教师和自我报告确定为自我调节问题高风险和低风险的男孩和女孩的任务表现和活动的影响。(Iii)对参与自我调节和认知负荷实验的儿童进行短期随访(12个月后)，以了解在高需求而不是低需求情况下的表现缺陷是否预示着青春期早期的ADHD症状。

Our aims are; (i) To identify tell-tale signs of self-regulation problems of primary school aged girls and to develop and validate short questionnaires that can be used alongside standard ADHD measures to screen females at risk for subsequent ADHD. (ii) To use Qbtech technology to experimentally examine the effects of cognitive load on task performance and activity of boys and girls identified by teachers and self-reports, as being at high and low risk for self-regulatory problems. (iii) To conduct a short-term follow up (after 12 months) of the children participating in the self-regulation and cognitive load experiment to see whether performance deficits in the high demand as opposed to the low demand situation predicted ADHD symptoms in early adolescence.