Yes, ADHD can impact social skills in kids, teens, and adults. Here’s why and how to cope.

The study found that children with ADHD were more likely to be both the victims and perpetrators of bullying compared to their peers.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued warning letters to two websites for illegally selling Schedule II stimulants, such as Adderall, without prescriptions, the FDA said Tuesday.

Birgit H. Amann, MD, and Greg Mattingly, MD, review patient and provider goals of treatment and provide insight on evaluating response to treatment for ADHD.

This post is the second of two posts on answers to the questions I have been asked most frequently over the past almost 40 years of studying the causes and consequences of chronic procrastination.

While reflecting on an extensive career of treating adult ADHD, David W. Goodman, MD, recalls a patient experience wherein treatment with a long-acting stimulant medication not only produced an astonishing short-term resolution but also opened up entire horizons for his patient. Dr Goodman explains that this patient success story is a prototypical experience in adult…

If you live with ADHD, you may experience more intense emotions such as anger. But there are strategies that can help you cope with this feeling.

KEY POINTS: The widespread medication of children has been criticized as an improper form of social control and intolerance of children’s differences. ADHD and medications are no longer conceived in terms of bad behaviors or control but in relation to self and deficient self-management. The new conception did not arise from any new discovery but…

Hereditary factors are partly responsible for childhood anxiety and depression that persists into adulthood, according to University of Queensland researchers. In the largest study of its kind in the world, the genetics of 64,641 children, aged between 3 and 18 years, were analyzed using longitudinal data from the Early Genetics and Lifeforce Epidemiology consortium.

What would it be like to remove the word “failure” from any description of your parenting and replace it with “efforting”? Failure is generally defined as a lack of success. There is a finality associated with the word that doesn’t really apply to the long-haul process of parenting. Parenting is a journey marked by highs…

KEY POINTS: ADHD can be a challenging diagnosis and oftentimes medication is used to manage symptoms. Paradoxically, there are many benefits to ADHD symptomatology that are oftentimes overlooked. Several non-medication alternatives can also be effective in managing symptoms.

A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the scientific journal Addiction and led by University of Bristol researchers shows that maternal prenatal smoking is associated with offspring attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but is unlikely to be the cause of it.