Q: My granddaughter, Rena, a senior, wants to attend college. She is a champion tennis player, but has struggled academically because of ADHD. Her ACT score and GPA are low. She was rejected by her college choices. Her counselor offers no encouragement except, “Go to a local community college to get ready for college work.”…

Mary Orr, a 68-year-old clinical social worker, complains to her doctor that she struggles to remain focused, becomes easily distracted and has difficulty completing tasks at work and chores at home. After asking a few questions, her physician tells her that this is part of normal aging…Both health care providers and patients need to be…

A child's birth date could play a role in determining which kids will be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and subsequently put on medication to treat it, a new study from Taiwan suggests. The researchers found that preschool and school-age children who were born in August had an increased risk of being diagnosed…

Using data from a government health survey, researchers found that children taking ADHD medications had, on average, lower bone density in the hip and lumbar spine (lower back) than kids not on the drugs…Experts said it's not clear that the medications themselves actually thin kids' bones, as the study only showed an association, and there…

While you may be hard-pressed to find women on celebrity ADHD success story lists, they're out there. The five notable women below are part of an even shorter list — women with ADHD who have spoken up about it in the press — but when it comes to successful women with ADHD, they're just the…

Using someone else's medication is the most common form of prescription stimulant misuse among adolescents, according to a study, which found that 88 percent of teens who used the drugs non-medically in the past 30 days said they had obtained the medications from someone else.

Investigators used a novel feed-forward modeling (FFM) system, which employs a computer game to illustrate desired future behaviors or a path toward a goal via electroencephalogram-based adaptation, thus encouraging the restructuring of behaviors and actions. They found it reduced ADHD symptoms by approximately one third and significantly improved the number of math problems that could…

A diagnosis of adult ADHD can be life changing, but it also often brings regret…Happily for couples impacted by ADHD, there is now enough information available to provide a path to move away from the frustration, anger and dysfunction that they feel. Much is at my website, but let me lay out some of the…

Two of the most commonly used scales in diagnosing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are moderately sensitive and specific, but one may have the edge over the other, a new meta-analysis shows. In comparing diagnostic performance of ADHD scales, investigators, led by Ling-Yin Chang, PhD, Taipei Medical University, in Taiwan, found that the Child Behavior Checklist–Attention Problem…

Sheila is married to a good man who provides for their family, shares duties of bringing up their only child and manages their accounts and utilities efficiently…It is not that Sheila is bored in her marriage, wants excitement, or adulation. On the contrary – she dearly wants her marriage and life to be free of…

College-aged students are the largest demographic to misuse attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication, according to a recent study. The study, done by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Mental Health and published in 2016, shows that those between the ages of 18 and 25 account for 60 percent of ADHD medication…

A new study led by Jeffrey P. Brosco, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has identified a possible correlation between the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and increasing academic demands on young children. In an article published in JAMA Pediatrics, Brosco hypothesized that increased academic standards…