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Deficits of Executive Functioning in Conduct Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Hassan Shahrokhi Mehdi Tehrani- Doost Zahra Shahrivar Sara FarhangShahrokh Amiri<p><strong>Background: </strong>To investigates executive functioning in Conduct disorder with comorbid ADHD.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> Participants were adolescent males with ADHD, CD with comorbid ADHD and healthy controls. Executive functioning were assessed using Go/No go task, Iowa gambling test and selected tests from CANTAB.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During the SWM test, CD+ADHD group had the tendency to revisit boxes with a token compared to controls. CD+ADHD patients had a significantly higher total error compared to controls in ID/ ED set shift. They also needed more moves in SOC compared to controls and solved a signifi antly lower number of problems compared to ADHDs and controls. They had a lower delay time for choosing risky cards of Iowa.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>CD+ADHD is associated with a broad range of defi cits in executive functioning, compared to healthy controls as well as group with ADHD. ADHD group seem to have an intermediate performance compared to CD+ADHD and control groups in several measures.</p> Annals of Psychiatry and Treatment - Peertechz Publications 2017-04-08 Research Article https://doi.org/10.17352/apt.000006 en Copyright © Hassan Shahrokhi et al.