KEY POINTS: Consider older children’s personalities and how testing information may affect them before sharing. Sharing test information with children can help them understand why they struggle in some areas. Emphasize the importance of effort, regardless of test results, regarding intellectual ability. Help your children consider carefully whether to share test results with their peers…

KEY POINTS: Start by identifying your challenges and what has helped you succeed in the past. Consider making changes to your physical office environment. Uninterrupted “off” work time and more frequent check-ins can increase focus and accountability.

Emotional dysregulation is defined by struggling to gain control over intense feelings. It’s an overlapping trait in disorders like ADHD, autism, and borderline personality disorder. Two therapists shared how to tell if you struggle with emotional dysregulation.

Should the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) require a prior in-person visit before allowing clinicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine? That was one of the issues that DEA officials heard conflicting testimony on during a “listening session” opens in a new tab or window Tuesday.

Summary: A team of researchers has uncovered new clues about how chemicals released by brain cells regulate our attention span.

For many, an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis is the thing it took to forgive ourselves and finally start healing

Nova Scotia has announced it will pay private-practice psychologists to perform autism spectrum and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessments to address the provincial backlog. The province said there are about 1,300 children waiting for autism testing and 400 waiting for ADHD testing.

It’s not as simple as telling your child “You’re perfect just how you are!”

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD as it is commonly known, is not only a childhood condition. It is a neurodevelopmental disorder that begins in childhood and stays into adulthood, although symptoms may change over time. The challenges for adults, specifically lawyers, living with ADHD was the subject of a recent program sponsored by the…

High school is a fast-paced, shifting social landscape where old friends can drift away and social status takes on greater importance.

Ann Childress, MD, the lead investigator in the phase 3 CTx-1301-022 study, discusses the positive data, recently shared at 2023 Psych Congress. Data show that the novel treatment can last up to 16 hours, helpful for patients with long days.

Doctors urgently need better international guidance on treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in people over 50, conclude experts reviewing current research on this increasing issue globally. Published in the Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, the team’s findings highlight a “striking” gap in knowledge about older people as existing guidelines focus on children and young adults.