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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access Moment-to-moment dynamics of ADHD behaviour in South African children Heidi Aase*1,3,4, Anneke Meyer2,4 and Terje Sagvolden3,4 Address: 1Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of mental health, P.O Box 4404 Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway, 2School of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo, South Africa, 3Department of Physiology, University of Oslo, Norway and 4Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway Email: Heidi Aase* - heidi.aase@fhi.no; Anneke Meyer - jad1@mweb.co.za; Terje Sagvolden - Terje.Sagvolden@medisin.uio.no * Corresponding author Published: 28 March 2006 Received: 07 November 2005 Accepted: 28 March 2006 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2006, 2:11 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-2-11 This article is available from: /content/2/1/11 © 2006 Aase et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The behaviour of children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is characterized by low predictability of responding. Low behavioural predictability is one way of operationalizing intra-individual ADHD- related variability. ADHD-related variability may be caused by inefficient behavioural selection mechanisms linked to reinforcement and extinction, as suggested by the recently published dynam