High school seniors who play contact sports are roughly 50% more likely to misuse prescription stimulants in the next decade after graduation, compared to those who do not participate in these types of sports, a new University of Michigan study found.

Dr. Sandra K. Loo, a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Pediatric Neuropsychology, joined the studio to discuss a possible breakthrough in ADHD treatment, varying from the classic prescribed medicines, and instead relying on nerve stimulation on the brain.

As an elementary school student in Hawaii, Winston Sakurai couldn’t understand why he was struggling so much, and neither could his teachers. He knew how to spell the words, but somehow when he put them on the paper, they didn’t appear the way they had in his head.

Medication may not always be the answer for certain disorders. In today’s Academic Minute, Florida International University’s William E. Pelham explains. Pelham is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for Children and Families at FIU.

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is safe and partially effective in treating attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and dyslexia. A team, led by Mohammad Ali Salehinejad, Department of Psychology and Neurosciences, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, provided an update on published randomized-controlled trials applying transcranial direct current stimulation…

As companies like Cerebral and Done come under fire for their ADHD prescribing practices, a Swedish company’s telehealth-friendly diagnostic test could offer a more objective, and accurate, alternative.

While a growing number of rap songs address mental health, little attention has been paid to the connection between hip-hop and ADHD. GRAMMY.com explores the discussion of neurodivergent artists, from Nicki Minaj and Diddy, to underground rappers.

Hi everyone, it’s Ike in Boston. Last week I wrote a story about troubles at an ADHD telehealth startup called Done. Patients and advocates tell me that telehealth can be hugely helpful for people with ADHD if it’s done right.

Good night, sleep tight! Researchers performed a 9-year follow-up of sleep disturbance and ADHD symptoms in a population-based cohort study.

Home-based transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improved attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who were not taking stimulant medications, a randomized trial showed.

When her son Jake was diagnosed with ADHD at age 11, it didn’t occur to Cary Colleran that she may have the condition as well. It didn’t occur to her that the appointments she forgot, the permission slips left on the kitchen table, the misremembered dates of field trips might be anything other than a…

A major study of children with intellectual disabilities has highlighted the additional challenges that they often face, including a much-increased likelihood of being diagnosed as autistic, as well as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other mental health difficulties.