Getting a good night’s sleep is important for children’s learning and development. When young people don’t get enough sleep, it can impact their mood, school performance, health, and behaviour.

The total duration of sleep increased from 9 hours 8 minutes prior to the pandemic to 9 hours 54 minutes during school closures in Taiwan. Certain sleep habits emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic for students in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic, including delayed bedtimes and increased total sleep duration.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A deep learning model that combines genetics and registry data can predict both mental disorder diagnosis and disorder progression in a clinically relevant, cross-diagnostic manner prior to clinical assessment, according to a study published online Dec. 7 in JAMA Psychiatry.

Researchers have used virtual reality games, eye tracking and machine learning to show that differences in eye movements can be used to detect ADHD, potentially providing a tool for more precise diagnosis of attention deficits. Their approach could also be used as the basis for an ADHD therapy, and with some modifications, to assess other…

New research published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology has revealed a link between maternal diabetes during pregnancy and a range of neurodevelopmental conditions in children—including autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), developmental delay, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy.

The following is a summary of the “Moderators of long-term treatment outcome when comparing two group interventions for adolescents with ADHD: who benefits more from DBT-based skills training?” published in the December 2022 issue of Psychiatry by Meyer et al. Although there has been a call for psychosocial therapies for teenagers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)…

Summary: Childhood body mass index is unlikely to have a big impact on children’s mood or behavioural disorders, according to a new study.

Some in the industry expect the Adderall shortage to possibly last until March 2023. With little warning, panic swept through many patients and families of patients with ADHD when they began to be less able to obtain prescribed medication this year—especially Adderall.

US drug enforcement officials are considering prohibiting online pharmacy Truepill from dispensing controlled substances after alleging that the company wrongly filled thousands of prescriptions for ADHD medicines such as Adderall.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) has sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging both agencies to act on the recent shortage of ADHD drugs. In her letter to DEA acting Administrator Anne Milgram and FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Spanberger asked the two agencies to collaborate on a…

A national shortage of the drug Adderall has spotlighted a spike in demand for medications that treat the disorder, especially among women. A growing number of adult women in the United States have been diagnosed with and are seeking treatment for ADHD, a development experts attribute to a long history of psychologists, parents and teachers…

As a person with ADHD, you may find that you go down a wormhole when you’re talking and say things you meant to filter out. Even if you don’t have ADHD, you may find yourself in this situation.