With some 9.4 percent of all children and 4.4 percent of adults in the U.S. diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, you would think the signs of ADHD would be well known by now. And in many cases they are…A huge swatch of kids and adults who suffer from inattentive ADHD break the stereotype. Quiet, spacey,…

Treating ADHD might mean you don’t get burned – literally. A new study from researchers in Taiwan highlights that fact by looking at rates of burn injuries among children with medicated and unmedicated ADHD.

Socioeconomic, technological, cultural, and historical conditions are contributing to a mental health crisis among college students in the United States, according to Anthony L. Rostain, MD, MA, in a virtual meeting presented by Current Psychiatry and the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists.

Nobody is immune to the stress that comes with a pandemic and related quarantining. Children, however, may be at particular risk. Living in a universe that is already out of their control, they can become especially shaken when the verities they count on to give the world order–the rituals in their lives, the very day-to-dayness…

As families prepare for learning online during the upcoming school year, some experts say that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have a harder time. “I know parents of kids with ADHD, and they’re very worried about the long-term effects of virtual learning on their students,” said assistant principal Laci Culbreth of Royce Learning Center,…

ADHD experts discuss evidence-based, recommended hierarchy for selecting medications to treat ADHD in adults; the different medications including short-acting stimulants, amphetamines, modafinil, and atomoxetine; and the efficacy and adverse effects of the medications.

Screen time before bed may affect kids differently, depending on whether they have a particular personality trait, suggests a study funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Late-in-life ADHD diagnoses are distressingly common, especially in women, and by the time all the requisite testing and diagnosing was done, I felt, well, behind. I wanted to know more, as much as I could. So, like the typical Virgo I am, I started researching. I began with the homework my psychiatrist gave me and…

“We applaud Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Insurance for holding health insurance providers accountable who violate Illinois’ mental health and addiction parity law,” said Illinois Association for Behavioral Health CEO Jud DeLoss.

The word “disability” evokes images of ramps, lower-positioned urinals, grab bars and other allowances in our architectural landscape. But an untold number of people have disabilities — from A.D.H.D. to addictive disorder to lupus — that aren’t necessarily helped by a reserved parking spot. A person who walks with a limp but uses no physical…

Late last month, the Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing for the first prescription video game to treat ADHD in children, a game titled Endeavor RX from Akili Interactive. This is a monumental achievement but it also symbolizes a bigger push in this space to tackle learning disabilities ranging ADHD to Autism.

Part 1: Lessons learned that can help you turn procrastination against itself. Procrastination has been deemed the quintessential self-regulatory failure—putting off tasks despite knowing you will be worse off as a consequence.1 Seeing as ADHD itself is a developmental problem of self-dysregulation—a chronic, persistent delay in the acquisition and employment of the foundational self-regulatory capacities,…