Only about 50% of antipsychotic prescriptions for children and youth who have been newly diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have an identifiable clinical indication. Furthermore, fewer than half of these patients receive initial treatment with stimulants ― the recommended first-line pharmacologic therapy ― results of a national analysis show.

Scientists say research two decades in the making has pinpointed the cause of severe ADHD, and pointed to ways to control and even reverse it. Researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute teamed up with researchers from Taiwan to put together a study of 80 sufferers of chronic attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

“Racial and ethnic disparities in the seeking and delivery of care for ADHD in adults remain prominent, putting a substantial portion of the population at increased risk for the many negative outcomes associated with ADHD,” Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD, of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in New York, told Healio Psychiatry.

The prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, has continued to climb significantly among adults in the United States within the past decade, a new study suggests. The study, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open on Friday, found increasing rates of adults diagnosed with ADHD within the Kaiser Permanente Northern California health system between…

For people using cannabinoid medications to treat mental health issues, a new study may take the wind out of your sails. It finds that in general, the different versions of medicinal cannabis don’t have any clear therapeutic benefit for a range of disorders—in fact, the authors conclude, the risks may well outweigh the benefits.

Kennedy Krieger Institute’s mission is to serve children, adults and families who have been impacted by neurological differences, disorders and disease. Our patients and students with special needs demonstrate quite effectively the full range of traits and conditions that, collectively, are described as neurodiversity.

A professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Michelle Howell-Smith, is looking at the benefits of equine therapy as a way to help relieve stress and social anxiety from people with mental conditions and physical limitations. The research was spurred by her own daughter, who has autism, who benefited from equine therapy.

Organize the kitchen. Clean out the garage. Get to the gym. Send out thank you cards. Meal prep for the week. Pay the bills. ADHDers often have lots they’d like to get done, but somehow their to-do lists never get any shorter. Why? Because simply deciding to do something isn’t enough. You need an action…

Tracey’s husband took advantage of the fact she has ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), accusing her of losing things and making her question herself. “I would scrabble for words [and] he’d say that he had to ‘hurry me’, putting more pressure on me.” This gradual psychological manipulation to make someone doubt themselves is known as…

There’s a new study out suggesting that children with ADHD are less academically engaged, and that the difference is partly down to student-teacher conflict. In other words, troubled student-teacher relationships aren’t the only reason students with ADHD are less engaged with school, but they seem to be a factor.

Among 996 mother-child pairs, those with higher levels of acetaminophen exposure — measured through biomarkers in cord blood at delivery — the chances that offspring would be diagnosed later with ADHD or ASD were significantly greater, reported Xiaobin Wang, MD, MPH, of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues…

Researchers have investigated the actions of the drug in rats. Using dopamine cell recordings, electrochemical monitoring and computer modeling, they discovered a type of feedback loop that modulates dopamine levels in the rats’ brains in response to the drug. This regulatory process may shed light on methylphenidate’s therapeutic properties in ADHD.