en Cellular and molecular Neuroscience Cellular and molecular Neuroscience Original Original <span style="FONT-FAMILY: "><p align="left" ><p>　</p><p align="justify"><b><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" size="2">Introduction: </font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">The present post-eventual research study was conducted with the purpose of comparing the memory performance between two distinct groups of 50 </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">healthy children and 50 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">(25 girls and 25 boys) in Tehran with an age range of 10-12. </font></font></font><b><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" size="2"><p align="justify">Methods: </p></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">The whole students were selected through simple random sampling method and were assessed in children's medical center, the Clinic of Roozbeh Hospital, and Tehran's Andishe primary school (both girls' and boys' branches). The applied tools for data gathering were the Benton test and Wechsler memory sub-test (form A). </font></font></font><b><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><p align="justify">Results: </p></font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">The results showed a significant difference between Benton test scores </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">and Wechsler memory sub-test scores (i.e. personal and general information, orientation, mind control, logical memory, repeating numbers straightly or reversely, learning and memory) among healthy children and those with ADHD. </font></font></font><b><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><p>Discussion: </p></font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">memory performance in children with ADHD was weaker than </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">healthy children. In general, with regard to the memory deficit and attention </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#221e1f" face="Times New Roman,Times New Roman" size="2">disorder, these patients require both memory and attention rehabilitation for a better quality of life. </font></font></font></b></b></b></b></p></span> Memory, Cognitive Performance, Children, ADHD 68 74 http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-119&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Afsaneh Zarghi 1370031947532846002066 1370031947532846002066 Yes Seyed Abolghasem Mehrinejad 1370031947532846002067 1370031947532846002067 No Alireza Zali 1370031947532846002068 1370031947532846002068 No Zahra Ramezankhani 1370031947532846002069 1370031947532846002069 No