Mary Jo Poillion's research while affiliated with University of Oklahoma and other places

Publications (3)

Article
The purpose of this article is to review the professional literature related to the identification of causes and characteristics of attention deficit disorder (ADD) in school-age learners. Forty-eight articles and books written by leading authors in the field were synthesized to determine the extent of agreement regarding the characteristics and ca...

Citations

... Given this, the treatment of pediatric patients with ADHD is of utmost importance. The most commonly used treatment modality is medication, such as methylphenidate (MPH) (Barkley and Poillion, 1994;Welsch et al., 2021), but it may cause side effects such as headache, stomach pain, and decreased appetite (De Sousa and Kalra, 2012). Meanwhile, in the past two decades, non-pharmacological interventions for ADHD have been rapidly developed and used (Cortese et al., 2022), such as physical activity interventions, neurofeedback interventions, and cognitive interventions (Jensen and Kenny, 2004;Sánchez-López et al., 2015;Sani et al., 2022), due to concerns about the side effects and long-term effects of pharmacological treatments (Coghill, 2019). ...
... Recent research suggests that inattentive behavior is caused by the accumulation of many genetic and environmental risk factors (Faraone et al., 2021). In one review of the causes of inattentive behavior, Goodman and Poillion (1992) identified 38 potential causes giving rise to temporary or long-term inattentive behavior. Putative categories of causes included organic (e.g., genetics, brain damage), intellectual/developmental (e.g., educational deficits, immature language development), psychological (e.g., low self-image, frustration, anxiety), environmental (e.g., physical environment, learned behavior) and birth complications (e.g., low birth weight, perinatal/prenatal problems). ...