There is no single African-American experience. Consider three different 8-year-old African-American boys, one each from the Mississippi delta, Chicago’s inner city and Prince George’s county’s affluent suburbs. Their cultures will have significant differences, and a cookbook cultural competency model would not serve them well. While consideration of these issues regarding ADHD in African-Americans is helpful,…

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder commonly occurring in children and adolescents. However, it has recently become accepted that the symptoms of ADHD can often continue into adulthood with an estimated lifetime prevalence of ADHD in US adults of 8.1%.1 It is thought that the earliest accounts of inattention as a disorder, in children and adults,…

These results do not support existing hypotheses on the role of anxiety as either an exacerbating or protective factor for ADHD-related aggression. These results do not support existing hypotheses on the role of anxiety as either an exacerbating or protective factor for ADHD-related aggression. Clinical anxiety does not appear to moderate aggression directly in patients…

Recently, a group of researchers interviewed 10 specialists who work with adults with ADHD, looking to find out more about the barriers that people with ADHD face. While the survey focused on specialists in South Africa, it raised points that will sound familiar to ADHDers and mental health professionals around the world. In the ten…

Investigators conducted this study to evaluate the association of methylphenidate (MP) use with the incidence of stress fractures (SF) in a cohort of healthy conscripts aged 18–25 years who served for = 12-months between 2008 and 2017.

Scientists using machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence — with data from hundreds of children who struggle at school, identified clusters of learning difficulties which did not match the previous diagnosis the children had been given. The researchers from the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge…

October is known as ADHD Awareness Month. While it can be expected that preschoolers won’t sit still or pay to instructions well, it is possible for a preschooler to be diagnosed with ADHD. According to CHADD — the National Resource Center on ADHD — children can be diagnosed with ADHD starting at age 4. Some…

Better adherence with drug treatment in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be associated with lower risk for oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder in adulthood, according to the results of a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

A new program at the University of Maryland is offering group and individual treatment for students with ADHD to help them succeed in college. SUCCEEDS, or Students Understanding College Choices: Encouraging Executing Decisions for Success, was founded this semester by two psychology professors at this university — Andrea Chronis-Tuscano and Michael Meinzer.

ADHD undermines an individual’s self-management abilities, including self-advocacy and planning. This means that students with ADHD are behind in the very skills needed to grapple with their own ADHD. Because of that reality, students who have ADHD typically require adult-initiated support at any age, until they demonstrate to us they are capable on their own.

Teens with ADHD might need extra behind-the-wheel training, a longer supervised driving period and medication adjustments. The AAP encourages parents to talk with their pediatrician about these matters before the teen gets his or her license. Other things to ask about are:

Using neuroimaging techniques, The Children’s Attention Project, run at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), found that certain patterns across the whole brain appear to be linked to ADHD symptoms, development and cognition.