As the exhausted mother of a child with ADHD who sometimes feels desperate for one moment of elusive silence, I often wonder: can he outgrow this?…CHADD, a charity that offers support, information, and advocacy to people with ADHD, gave me the answer to the question I’ve asked myself so many times, even if it wasn’t…

The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) screening test is an essential step in diagnosing the condition. Before treatment can begin, an individual needs a diagnosis. The condition, however, is challenging to diagnose.

Optimal treatment of a child or adolescent with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) begins by establishing a collaborative care team consisting of the family, school personnel, primary care clinician (PCC), mental health and subspecialty clinicians, and other adults, such as tutors and coaches.1 To facilitate communication among care team members, a standardized, reliable system should be established…

KEY POINTS: Many therapy clients report that they’re having trouble remembering what they talked about in their recent therapy session. Sleep deprivation, ADHD, anxiety, depression, or the pandemic itself are all possible causes. On top of prioritizing sleep and exercise, practicing creativity and making sure to socialize can help reduce monotony and improve memory.

KEY POINTS: ADHDers are not motivated by importance, rewards, and consequences as neurotypicals are. ADHDers operate with a high-octane, interested-based nervous system. The intense emotionality that can accompany ADHD is often misdiagnosed as a mood disorder. Hyperactivity is an outward expression of the hyperarousal on the inside, and is often present in ADHDers without the…

If you have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), some clothing or food textures can cause sensory overload…When sensory overload happens, your brain is overwhelmed with information from your five senses and can’t process it correctly.

Children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not have significantly different cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) analyses and interval distributions. They present with high CAP rates, which is normal for peripubertal children, according to study results published in the Journal of Sleep Research.

The study analyzed data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). The child suicide decedents were between ages 5 and 11 years, and suicides occurred between 2013 and 2017 in 37 states…The authors found that a third of these children had a specific mental health concern identified prior to their suicide, most commonly attention…

Researchers investigated the benefits, if any, of providing micronutrients (vitamins/minerals) to a North American pediatric sample for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and irritability…Findings indicated global benefit of micronutrients over placebo by blinded clinician rating, but not by parent-report CASI-5 composite rating in this population.

A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports on a review of nonpharmacological treatments for ADHD, specifically electroencephalogram (EEG biofeedback, or neurofeedback), which shows a large improvement of inattention at the end of the trial, but without a significant difference between the two treatments.

A recent study has found that individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other psychiatric diagnoses are more likely to stop taking their ADHD medications. The study is the largest of its kind to date, according to the authors, and the results were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry…Investigators collected data from 9133 patients…

Q: My 9-year-old son has severe ADHD. He has done fine academically in public school. (He just finished third grade.) He’s on medication and has an Individualized Education Program (IEP), but he still struggles terribly with disruptive behavior in the classroom and with rigidity. (For example, he’s always arguing about rule violations for whatever schoolyard…