In the first three months of 2024, there were 323 active drug shortages, the highest number since 2001, according to research by the University of Utah Drug Information Service.

The founder and head doctor of telehealth company Done Global were arrested and charged with fraud, accused by federal authorities of conspiring to provide easy access to Adderall and other stimulants.

New research, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that teachers may be attributing signs of age-related immaturity in children, to conditions such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Rhode Island Senate passes bill to improve access for DEA-scheduled prescription drugs, which includes ADHD meds

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A Chicago area high school has an innovative new program to help kids regulate their emotions.

A recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry has shed new light on how genetic factors contribute to different patterns of depression during adolescence. By analyzing the genetic data of over 14,000 adolescents from two major cohorts, researchers identified distinct trajectories of depressive symptoms and linked these patterns to genetic risks shared across multiple psychiatric conditions.

The Psych Congress Network sat down with Tim Wilens, MD, chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, in September for an in-depth Q&A on adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) treatment.

[Excerpt] A study coordinated by the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute (IRSJD), within the SJD MIND Schools program, and the CIBER of Mental Health (CIBERSAM) has analyzed the impact of the genetic basis of these disorders on the mental health and academic outcomes of children and adolescents from…

Key Takeaways: No differences in creativity emerged between children whose mothers had epilepsy and other children at age 4.5 years. However, children of women with epilepsy showed exposure-dependent effects in executive function. Exposure-dependent effects in executive function were most pronounced in children of women taking levetiracetam.

Disturbed sleep is very common in almost all neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions (NDPCs), such as autism, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. While it is understandable that the symptoms of such conditions would lead to sleep disruption and also that sleep disruption would worsen symptoms in these conditions, Irish researchers have now…

Niki Elliot skipped the fifth grade. She was so smart that she could have skipped another, she said, but her mother didn’t want her in class with older boys. She was bored in school. She had a “near photographic” memory and didn’t need to study — so she never learned how to, Elliot said.