Do neurocognitive deficits in decision making differentiate conduct disorder subtypes?
2016 — Neurocognitive deficits and CD/CU subtypes
Finding
Decision-making, selective-attention, and future-orientation deficits were associated with conduct-disorder presentations regardless of CU level; children high in CU traits without CD showed less risky decision making than children high in both CD and CU traits.
Why it matters
The result constrains an overly simple subtype hypothesis: not every neurocognitive deficit neatly separates CU-defined conduct-disorder groups.
Constraint
Some candidate neurocognitive mechanisms appear transdiagnostic across conduct-disorder subtypes rather than CU-specific.
