They’re marketed as a natural alternative to prescription drugs and are popular on social media, but do they work?

This session will provide an update on the development of the US Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD in Adulthood. Overseen by APSARD and a Steering Committee chaired by Thomas Spencer, MD, and Frances Levin, MD, three subcommittees have been working for approximately the past two years on the development of guidelines for…

BETHLEHEM, PA — The Lehigh University College of Education will host a half-day symposium on evidence-based approaches to supporting individuals with ADHD from early childhood through college. Titled “Comprehensive Support for ADHD: PreK–College,” the event will take place on April 20, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Wood Dining Hall inside Iacocca…

New research in attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) covered QbCheck, an objective, remote test for core ADHD symptoms.1 The test is designed to complement other ADHD measures like structured interviews and subjective rating scales, to provide objective data in a clinician’s evaluations.2 Ragini Sanyal, a lead researcher involved in developing the tool, shared more about recent data…

A study by researchers in the Netherlands found that individuals with higher levels of ADHD symptoms are more prone to problematic social media use and problematic gaming. However, this link is not mediated by the cognitive deficits underlying ADHD, such as inhibitory control deficits, reward sensitivity, or temporal processing deficits. The paper was published in…

In a paper, published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry, a group of experts say there is no robust evidence that ADHD is over-diagnosed in the UK. They refute the view that ‘nowadays everyone has ADHD’, which is gaining traction in public discourse and has been amplified by some leading politicians, as demand rises…

Females diagnosed with ADHD later in life are more likely to experience adolescent mental health struggles, teenage pregnancy, secondary school absences, and have more hospital appointments, than those diagnosed in early childhood, finds new research.

[Excerpt] In more than two centuries of documentation and nearly 60 years of formal study of ADHD, the experiences of Black women have been almost entirely ignored. This means that the research doesn’t reflect reality because Black women do have ADHD. But they’re not represented in the data used to estimate how many people have…

More women are getting diagnosed with ADHD later in life. Psychiatrist Dr. Sasha Hamdani explains the hidden impacts of the disorder.

Key Takeaways: In a nationwide cohort study in Taiwan, positive associations between maternal acetaminophen prescriptions during pregnancy and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring became null in sibling-matched analyses. However, further analyses in the sibling-matched analysis suggested the presence of unaddressed sources of bias, preventing firm conclusions from being drawn. The…

Orders for acetaminophen fell 10% after the White House announcement.

MONDAY, March 9, 2026 (HealthDay News) — During the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of new stimulant prescriptions dispensed to adults accelerated rapidly, according to a study published online March 9 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association.