Atypical Pulvinar-Cortical Pathways During Sustained Attention Performance in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Allied with previous evidence of structural abnormalities in pulvinar, the current data suggest that inappropriate development of pulvinar may lead to disrupted functional circuits for visual attention processing, and that these disruptions contribute significantly to the pathophysiological mechanisms of the inattentiveness symptoms in ADHD.