As the Winter 2021 semester comes to a close, many McGill students have reported a range of challenges in finishing the academic year. One challenge in particular affects some students more than others, and often does so without their awareness: An undiagnosed mental disorder.

If managed well, and with help from a doctor, ADHD can present as the opposite of what most people think it is. Some people mistakenly believe that ADHD is a side effect of modern life and the rapid increase in handheld devices, but technology has gotten a bad (and factually incorrect) reputation as a cause…

“We found teens with ADHD to have two to three times more difficulties with sleep problems,” stated Stephen Becker, a Clinical Psychologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Becker and his colleagues conducted a study in which they recruited 300 students, half with ADHD, half without. Twenty percent of the teens with ADHD got less…

College is far more stressful for undergrads with ADHD than for their classmates, but it doesn’t have to defeat them. New research finds that resilience seems to be an important buffer. “The results offer hope to students because each of the resilience factors can be strengthened at any point in life either on one’s own…

Apotex recalled three lots of Guanfacine, a drug used to treat ADHD, after finding one lot had trace amounts of a drug used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.

The Food and Drug Administration late Friday OK’d Qelbree (KELL’-bree) for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children ages 6 to 17. It comes as a capsule that’s taken daily. Unlike nearly all other ADHD medicines, Qelbree is not a stimulant or a controlled substance, making it harder to abuse than older drugs.

Similar conversations — an insistence on not self-diagnosing accompanied by countless responses doing just that — are playing out in the comments of videos about anxiety, trauma, narcissistic personality disorder, autism, and more…How rampant TikTok-related self-diagnosis is — and whether it’s even a bad thing — is up for debate.

Asked what they know about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, many people will likely tell you that it mostly affects children, and mostly boys. However, research has shown that neither of these perceptions is entirely true.

Children with exceptionally high IQ scores can also have ADHD. Both of my sons qualified for the Gifted/Talented program in school based on their high intelligence test scores. Both were also given the diagnosis of ADHD.

Akili Interactive has published data from its STARS-Adjunct trial supporting the efficacy of EndeavorRx, its attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) video game therapy for kids, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Digital Medicine.

This week, the study team announced preliminary results. While the study was designed to evaluate the brains of people with ADHD, they found fidgeting increased blood flow in the brains of participants with and without the condition. This increased blood flow was found in the executive decision-making region of the brain: the prefrontal cortex.

Researchers herein used 39 datasets of the ENIGMA consortium to perform the largest ever analysis of brain left‐right asymmetry in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A total of 1,933 people with ADHD and 1,829 unaffected controls were assessed for analyzing asymmetry of subcortical and cerebral cortical structures.