ADHD is a condition that’s as much about what you don’t do as what you do. Avoiding tasks that are unpleasant or simply uninteresting is a common sign of ADHD. The DSM diagnostic manual refers to this symptom as avoiding “tasks that require sustained mental effort.” Many people with ADHD report that it extends to…

A new study is highlighting why people need to continue building awareness around mental health, though, after finding that there may be a link between mom’s postpartum depression and ADHD. This doesn’t mean moms are to blame, but points to the importance of caring for moms’ postnatal mental health.

The Australian Atlas for Healthcare Variation, released today, shows around 14,000 prescriptions were dispensed per 100,000 children aged 17 and under in 2016-17, compared with around 11,000 in 2013-14…So far, we have found only one in four children who met full ADHD criteria were taking medication at age ten. So it looks like, if anything,…

In this study using 2 sets of population-based medical records, researchers found that children whose older brother or sister had autism were 30 times more likely to receive the same diagnosis and 3.7 times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than children whose older sibling did not have either disorder. Led by Meghan Miller,…

Although ADHD includes the word “disorder” in its title, this condition ultimately means your brain works a bit differently than that of people without ADHD — and it doesn’t have to be a “bad thing”…Here are some of the superpowers of the ADHD brain that mental health experts and patients often observe:

A new study shows that the infections children contract during their childhood are linked to an increase in the risk of mental disorders during childhood and adolescence. This knowledge expands our understanding of the role of the immune system in the development of mental disorders.

One of the biggest debates among parents who have the choice is whether to send their newly-turned 5 year olds to school, or hold them back a year in order for them to gain more maturity before the rigors of kindergarten. A newly-released study published in the New England Journal of Medicine adds yet another…

Prescribing stimulants to people with ADHD who also have substance use disorders is so counterintuitive that many medical professionals simply refuse to do it. After all, handing over a controlled substance to someone with a drug problem sounds like a bad idea, right?…So how do we know whether prescribing stimulants to people with ADHD and…

Xu and colleagues[1] used updated information from the National Health Interview Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate the most recent prevalence of ADHD among US children and adolescents. This survey samples approximately 35,000 households.

For the first time, researchers have found that African-American mothers in a study rated boys as displaying more frequent ADHD symptoms than Caucasian mothers did, regardless of child race. The findings mean that racial differences found in prior studies may be more due to maternal race than child race, said researcher George DuPaul of Lehigh…

Scott Young distinctly remembers the first teacher who tried to talk with him about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in connection with his oldest son, Jonathan. The stay-at-home dad in Charlotte, NC, says the teacher reached out several times but he consistently and purposely blew her off.

It was in year 8 that Heath Shaw started to think he was maybe a little different…Then an explanation came in the form of a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, or ADHD. It unlocked an understanding of what was happening in his childhood and later helped him forge a successful playing career as an…