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SUBMITTER: Tripp G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3441939 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20120701 3
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) presents special challenges for drug development. Current treatment with psychostimulants and nonstimulants is effective, but their mechanism of action beyond the cellular level is incompletely understood. We review evidence suggesting that altered reinforcement mechanisms are a fundamental characteristic of ADHD. We show that a deficit in the transfer of dopamine signals from established positive reinforcers to cues that predict such reinforcers m ...[more]