The current study examined the impact of the lockdown due to the Covid-19 disease on mood state and behaviours of children and adolescents with ADHD. Nine hundred ninety-two parents of children and adolescents with ADHD filled out an anonymous online survey through the ADHD family association website.

To Dana Kay, founder and CEO of Our Road to Thrive and the creator of the ‘ADHD Thrive Method 4 Kids’ program, nothing mattered more than having a normal life. But as her son started to grow, she realized that something was a little bit different with him. Now a Board Certified Holistic Health and…

Jewelz Tucker, a Northern California mother of four, had an epiphany as she sat with her husband filling out the form to get one of her sons screened for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. As she went through the checklist, she wondered aloud to her husband, “Is this me?”…Millions of adults suffer from ADHD, and although those with…

Methylphenidate use during pregnancy was not linked to an increased risk for malformations overall in a nationwide registry-based study with information on both prenatal and postnatal diagnoses published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Your patient is a 11-year-old boy who is distracted, hyper, and irritable. He talks excessively in class, and there are signs of impulsivity. Last week he climbed to the roof of the school to throw tennis balls into the parking lot. Is this a case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, or something…

Computational modeling is a tool that allows us to observe “how” those children solve school tasks or “how” those children interact with other children in computer games. Therefore, these tools help to quantify certain characteristics that may be dysfunctional but that do not become directly apparent in behavior.

Two years ago, I wrote about my concern that John Rosemond’s column on child mental health often provides dangerous and incorrect information. Then, he minimized childhood depression and possible suicidal thinking to focus on harsh parental discipline as a solution for an irritable teen.

My son is now old enough that he overhears conversations I have with his dad about his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and he has questions. Explaining mental illness to my child feels like a balancing act. I want to be honest with him, but I want him to feel proud of himself, too. How do I…

A military pilot and an entrepreneur – who were both diagnosed with ADHD relatively late in life – discuss how they cope with it, how it’s helped them be successful in their careers, and what they’ve learned about managing neurodiverse people.  [podcast]

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to change all of our lives in ways we could never have imagined a year ago….Many young people with ADHD have been struggling to make it through, avoid depression and get basic stuff done. Amidst increased anxiety and constant access to technology, it’s harder than ever to find focus and stay…

A new study out of Taiwan reveals that some people on the autism spectrum may be at a higher risk for substance use. Researchers looked at data from the country’s health insurance program to look at whether autism was a risk factor for developing substance use disorder.

The intergenerational recurrence risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be influenced by gender, and other psychiatric disorders may increase risk of ADHD in offspring, researchers found in a large study. Results were published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.