ADHD medication use was associated with better performance on higher education entrance tests among individuals with ADHD, according to recent findings…To assess associations between ADHD medication use and performance on higher education entrance tests among individuals with ADHD, researchers analyzed records of pharmacologic treatment from Swedish national registers and data from the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude…

“To have ADHD and nothing else is the exception, not the rule,” says E. Mark Mahone, a child neuropsychologist, research scientist and the director of the Department of Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. “If you have a child with ADHD, that child will likely also have something else.” Learning disabilities, anxiety and…

Imagine trying to juggle a full life of work and home demands when focus is almost impossible: That’s everyday life for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Here, adult ADHD sufferers reveal their tricks for managing the carnival in their brain.

The presence of comorbid disorders is often the rule rather than the exception in individuals with ADHD. Of particular concern is problematic substance use…Elevated substance use significantly complicates a patient’s symptom presentation, making the accurate diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of ADHD challenging even for the most skilled practitioners.

In the study, adults who had been diagnosed with ADHD were more than three times more likely to later be diagnosed with dementia, compared with adults who did not have ADHD, the researchers found.

“Most sports can be excellent for children with ADHD,” says Dr. Danelle Fisher, chair of pediatrics at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California. “Sports are a terrific way to channel the energy that kids with ADHD have. They can also help with learning how to function as part of a team as…

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can share similar symptoms and treatments. You are also more likely to have anxiety if you have ADHD.

[Those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)]…get hyperfocused on a problem that captures their attention, especially when the tasks they “should” be working on seem boring or impossible to a less-than organized mind. When that hyperfocus leads them to some measure of success, they are told that their achievements are not welcome. So they set…

Many successful people have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, singer Justin Timberlake and comedian-actor Howie Mandel. On the more local level, Daniel Arrigg Koh is among successful people who don’t let ADHD get in the way of their accomplishments.

Virtual reality could prove useful in clinical practice, but more research is needed…This year’s Disrupt NY Hackathon featured an innovative use of virtual reality in helping diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Designed by a team of high school students from New Jersey, the virtual reality experience aims to simplify the process of diagnosing ADHD.

A study published in the June issue of JAMA Pediatrics found that teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are about one-third more likely to be involved in a car accident than people without ADHD…One of the study’s researchers, Dr. Flaura Winston, professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia…says that while this finding…

People living with untreated ADHD have a tendency to self-medicate. When ADHDers self-medicate, their drug of choice can range from mostly benign (like coffee) to unhealthy but legal (like cigarettes) to potentially more problematic (like alcohol). And in some cases, logically enough, ADHDers end up self-medicating with stimulants. It’s not hard to see the rationale…