“Parkinson’s disease is commonly thought of as a neurodegenerative disease associated with aging,” said Glen Hanson, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and School of Dentistry at U of U Health and senior author on the paper. “This may be the first time where a childhood disease and its treatment may be linked to…

Many college students in the United States abuse prescription ADHD medications with the belief that they can improve focus and cognition to achieve academic success. The results of recent research, however, suggest that these medications — specifically Adderall — either have a negative or nonexistent effect on performance in a number of brain processes.

When both safety and efficacy are taken into account, the preferred first-choice medication for treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should most often be amphetamines for adults and methylphenidate for children and adolescents, according to research published in Lancet Psychiatry.

For many, the first ADHD treatment that comes to mind is medication…But ADHD meds by themselves aren’t a complete ADHD treatment program. Whether you’re currently on an ADHD medication that works for you or not, you’re missing out if you haven’t considered psychotherapy as part of your ADHD treatment. By the same token, if you…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved TMS in 2007 for patients with depression who didn’t respond to medication. But for ADHD, “there isn’t any evidence to my knowledge showing that it’s clinically effective,” says Joel Voss, an associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University. Treatments for ADHD outside clinical trials “would be unethical,” he…

Kids with ADHD are easily distracted. Barn owls are not. So a team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is studying these highly focused predatory birds in an effort to understand the brain circuits that control attention. The team’s long-term goal is to figure out what goes wrong in the brains of people with attention…

A causal relationship was identified between childhood trauma and impulsive behavior in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), according to research findings published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. However, no similar association was identified in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Receiving our son’s diagnosis of ADHD shed light as to why standard parenting advice wasn’t really working in our home. Understanding our son’s non-neurotypical condition enabled us to be more effective parents as we researched beneficial parenting techniques for children with ADHD. For those parents who have been struggling to discipline their children with ADHD,…

The number of ADHD diagnoses among children has risen dramatically in the past two decades, going from 6 percent to 10 percent, a new report shows…To study ADHD trends, [researchers] reviewed 20 years of data from the National Health Interview Survey, which is conducted annually by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The…

In both ADHD and emotional instability disorders (e.g. borderline and antisocial personality disorder as well as conduct disorder in children), the brain exhibits similar changes in overlapping areas, meaning that the two types of conditions should be seen as related and attention should be paid to both during diagnosis.

A new study has found evidence that playing video games that involve physical exertion (exergaming) can improve executive function in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The findings appear in the journal Scientific Reports.

The meta-analysis, which included 10 randomized controlled trials, 17 nonrandomized studies, and 18 patient reports, showed that 1% to 2.5% of participants experienced such troublesome symptoms. However, investigators emphasize that the quality of the data in the included studies is subpar and that there is a possibility of bias.