For most people, ADHD conjures a mental image of school-aged boys squirming at desks or bouncing off walls, not a picture of adults, girls, or especially adult women. Both scientists and society have long pinned ADHD on males, even though girls and women may be just as likely to suffer from this neurodevelopmental disorder.

Brain stimulation therapy shows promise, but much more work and study needed…Researchers transmitting electricity into patients’ brains have made measurable — and drug-free — reductions in symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity, depression, and other psychiatric issues. It’s a procedure called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Weak electric currents therapeutically stimulate parts of the brain or slow…

“Our approach is different because we highlighted that ADHD is not just about inattention — it’s about inattention and over-focusing,” says Greg Crosby, MA, LPC, one of the authors of the just-released book Transforming ADHD: Simple, Effective Attention & Action Skills to Help You Focus & Succeed…Below are five tips — based on Crosby and…

Teenagers sent to state prison in New Jersey are routinely stripped of their federal rights to special education services and sometimes left in solitary confinement with little regard for their disabilities, a new class action lawsuit contends…Teens with disabilities who are incarcerated in adult prisons are entitled to special education through the age of 21,…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted a new coverage policy for Medicare. On January 1, 2017, CMS will begin paying primary care clinicians separately for Collaborative Care services that they provide to patients who are being treated for a mental or behavioral health condition. There are other ways a primary care…

Emerging research suggests a new video game interface that targets underlying cognitive issues may be an effective intervention for depression. The game-based app targets an individual’s neurological ability to process multiple streams of information, thereby focusing on the cause, rather than just the symptoms, associated with depression.

When Dr. Johan Wiklund was diagnosed with ADHD in 2012, the professor of entrepreneurship at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management formed a hypothesis: People who have ADHD might gravitate toward entrepreneurship and the flexibility it offers. Further, they might be successful as entrepreneurs not in spite of their ADHD, but because of it. He’s…

A lot of the problems that come with ADHD have to do with time. People with ADHD often struggle with time management and regularly find themselves running late. So are people with ADHD just generally out of sync? According to one paper published recently in Medical Anthropology, the answer is yes. The paper’s author conducted…

Time can be tricky. Sometimes there’s too much of it. Sometimes there isn’t enough. To make things worse, people with ADHD tend to generally have problems planning ahead, and planning out how to use time is no exception. Still, some well-aimed coping strategies can bring a little order to the ADHDer’s schedule. Here are some…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 11 percent of 4-17-year olds in the United States have attention deficient hyperactive disorder (ADHD). The CDC also estimate that in the U.S., boys are almost 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls are. This has led to the mistaken belief…

Preexisting psychiatric and behavioral conditions and psychoactive medication use are associated with subsequent claims of prescription opioids, according to a study published in Pain. The preexisting psychiatric and behavioral conditions include substance use disorders (SUDs), opioid use disorders (OUDs), suicide attempts and other self-injury, depression, and motor vehicle crashes.

In 2014, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 13.1 percent of children 8 to 15 years of age had a diagnosable mental disorder within the prior year, and 21.4 percent of 13- to 18-year-olds had a seriously debilitating disorder at some point in their childhood. Dr. David Axelson, chief of Behavioral Health at…