In Atlanta, a team of Black mental health experts is bringing care to adolescents whose needs often go unaddressed and misunderstood.

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) – A crackdown by U.S. drug wholesalers in response to the opioid crisis is preventing some pharmacists from dispensing a combination of stimulants and sedatives routinely prescribed by psychiatrists to help patients manage conditions like anxiety and ADHD.

Experts share their advice for raising children while dealing with the neurological disorder. Parenting a child who has ADHD comes with additional challenges on top of the usual trials and tribulations of child rearing. Parenting when you yourself have ADHD entails a whole other dimension of difficulty.

Key Takeaways: Attention-deficit/hypersensitivity disorder (ADHD) has a lifelong increased risk of accidents; the risk is decreased in patients who are prescribed psycholeptics and stimulants.

The rate of ADHD diagnoses has been rising in the U.S. for the past two decades, and experts suspect that social media and the pandemic may be a catalyst. More Americans are seeking out treatment, which is straining the health care system. Then, in October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced there was…

KEY POINTS: ADHD can show up in unique ways in therapists, both as challenges and strengths. ADHD can impact focus, organization, and various therapeutic skills. ADHD can also make for creative problem-solving and increased connection to emotions.

Robert L. Findling, MD, MBA, and Timothy Wilens, MD, share their thoughts on treatment considerations with the patient’s family in pediatric ADHD.

Raising children while managing ADHD comes with a unique set of challenges on top of the usual difficulties of parenthood.

An analysis of data from five large-scale studies found somewhat lower white matter fractional anisotropy in certain regions of the brain in persons diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Fractional anisotropy is generally considered an indicator of connectivity in the brain. Similar microstructural anomalies were not present for anxiety, mood, or externalizing problems. The…

A study published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology explored the consequences of mind-wandering for children diagnosed with ADHD in medicated and unmedicated conditions. The study concludes that unmedicated children diagnosed with ADHD are more vulnerable to mind-wandering, resulting in off-task behavior.

Christine Strand Bachmann has led a study that includes all Norwegian children born between 1989 and 1998, a total of 488,000 people. The NTNU Ph.D. candidate has reviewed all the prescriptions the children received from the age of 10 until they were 23. She compared children born in January or February with those born in…

MRI studies have associated white matter bundles with greater severity of ADHD symptoms.