Recognition of emotional facial expressions in adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

•ADHD is linked to deficiencies in determination of emotional facial expressions.•Such deficiencies have been documented in children and in adults with ADHD.•No behavioral response deficiencies to emotional faces found in ADHD adolescents.•ADHD and peer adolescents differ in brain activity when processing emotional faces.•ADHD adolescents might be using compensating strategies to assess emotional faces.