A recent review published in Behavioural Neurology suggests that mindfulness is a promising way to improve attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. The study collectively examined several studies of mindfulness-based interventions as treatment for ADHD and narrowed down studies that were of good quality.

Much of what scientists know about how brain development in children is impaired by adverse early life experience comes from studies on Romanian orphans who suffered severe neglect under the Communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

The division between these experiences of ADHD can be pretty stark. While 13% of adult men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with ADHD in their lifetimes, only 4.2% of women will have the same diagnosis, according to Healthline. There isn’t one ‘female’ and one ‘male’ type of ADHD; there’s a reason that it’s identified…

Many more boys get diagnosed with ADHD than girls. But more girls may have the condition than we think – and their struggle to receive a diagnosis can affect their whole lives.

Large-scale health-records data provide a valuable resource to study this question. A group of investigators using data from Swedish health registries found that people treated with stimulants for ADHD were not at increased risk for substance abuse. In fact, they may have had lower rates of substance abuse than individuals with ADHD who were not…

Adults with autism tend to have a different set of psychiatric conditions than do those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study of more than 1 million people suggests.

Stephen V. Faraone, PhD, Distinguished Professor at Upstate and a leading researcher on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), has been elected president of the World Federation of ADHD. Faraone will serve a four-year term, which began last month. He previously had served for eight years as vice president…He is also a member of the Children…

If you have a child with ADHD, it might seem initially difficult to create coping strategies. Yet, with just a bit of creativity and determination, you can effectively help your child cope with ADHD. Here are ten ways to help you do that:

Some babies are easy-going and others are just hard. But could your little one’s behavior as an infant signal problems down the road? Scientists say maybe. They examined 342 kids at ages five months, 20 months, and at four and a half years old – and again at ages six, eight, and 28 years old.

These days, we know a lot more about ADHD, its potential causes, its effects on other disorders, and effective ways to treat it. However, you may not have dipped beneath the surface of ADHD to learn more about this fascinating condition, and there’s a lot to know.

If your child is always engaging in roughhousing and has a very short attention span at home and at school, you may be worried that he or she has Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, better known as ADHD. Depending on your child’s age though, these may just be normal behaviors for that developmental stage. How to tell the…

The takeaway: that an increasing number of students are getting 504 accommodations and extended time on the ACT and SAT, and that a disproportionate number of these students are from wealthy school districts…However, the students I work with who do receive accommodations (not as many as you might think) have very obvious and real problems…