New research presented by the European Society of Cardiology suggests that we have been going about addressing childhood obesity all wrong. Instead of focusing on nutritional knowledge, we should be teaching children self-regulation and emotion management skills…parents frequently ask about how to help ADHD children remain committed to goals like healthy eating when their neurology…

There are different phases of learning to cope with ADHD, and one of the phases that many of us pass through is the phase of wishing we were like people who didn’t have ADHD…Part of learning to cope more effectively is learning how to replace the wrong questions with the right ones.

I recently got a call from a mother who was looking to hire an ADHD coach for her teen daughter. She told me that a friend of hers suggested she find an ADHD coach to which she responded, “An ADHD coach? What the heck is that? Is there such a thing? What do they do?…

When a patient is newly diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is it better to begin treatment with a stimulant or a nonstimulant? Anthony L. Rostain, MD, MA, shares his thoughts in this video.

Expert advice on how to make sure all those new back-to-school jackets, water bottles and backpacks make it back from school…“It is important for educators and parents to understand that the areas of the brain related to executive functioning do not mature until a person is in their mid-20s,” said Dr. Mark Bertin, a developmental…

The combined results of 61 studies conducted in 19 countries suggest that when a woman gives birth by cesarean section, autism in the child is 33% more likely and the odds of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increase by 17%. The statistical analysis, published in JAMA Network Open, does not prove that having a C-section directly causes…

Researchers have found that as premature babies grow, their mental health may be related less to the medical challenges they face after birth than to the environment the babies enter once they leave the neonatal intensive care unit.

Pina, a 29-year-old artist from Germany has been living with ADHD for a while now. “I’m a freelance illustrator and visual development artist for Animation but in true ADHD manner, I have studied graphic design, of which I dropped out, and game design, in which I graduated.” Pina is currently juggling quite a few artistic…

Adults with ADHD are more prone to anxiety, depression, and other psychological challenges…Fortunately, there is significant research from a field of science pioneered by Dr. Martin Seligman called Positive Psychology, the study of strategies that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Via a twin study of 13,532 Swedish twin pairs aged 9 and 12 years at recruitment, researchers investigated the degree to which genetic and environmental risk factors for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) traits, across childhood and adolescence, were related to adolescent hypomanic symptoms.

People sometimes talk about hyperfocus as if it gives ADHDers a secret superpower. And to be sure, when the stars align and you hyperfocus on something productive, it’s a great feeling. Just as often, though, someone with ADHD might hyperfocus on something that’s basically a waste of time.

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who took micronutrients had lower levels of a bacteria linked to the psychological disorder, and a healthier range of bugs in their gut overall, new research shows.