ADHD & the Black Community

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 17 million Americans of all ages, races, and gender. Many think it’s strictly a problem for kids and young adults, but it affects adults too. Ten percent of school children and four percent of adults deal with ADHD. If you want to learn about ADHD and how it affects the…

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Getting an ADHD diagnosis right

October is ADHD Awareness Month. Sometimes, ADHD is diagnosed. Katie Orth speaks with a psychologist on the importance of getting the diagnosis correct.

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Study on cognitive control in children with ADHD finds abnormal neural connectivity patterns in multiple brain regions

A new study has identified abnormal brain connectivity in children with ADHD. The findings have been published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. Functional connectivity is a measure of the correlation between neural activity in different brain regions. When brain regions show similar patterns of activity at the same time when performing specific tasks, it is an…

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Study finds brain changes associated with ADHD remission

A recent study published in NeuroImage: Clinical used state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques to determine what brain changes may cause childhood ADHD to go into remission. Christienne Damatac and colleagues looked at brain changes in those diagnosed with ADHD over 16 years.

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Doctors share advice on dealing with the Adderall shortage

If you’re having trouble renewing your Adderall prescription, experts say you should work with your health-care provider to shop around at nearby pharmacies or discuss rewriting your prescription to a version of the medication that isn’t in such high demand.

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Stimulant Shortage the Result of a “Perfect Storm”

Millions of people living with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the United States face a challenging situation that may only worsen over the next couple of months: a shortage of prescription stimulants, including Adderall and its generic formulation, as well as an extended-release generic formulation.

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