Right now, we diagnose autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and OCD based on information about a person’s experiences and behaviours that fit a textbook definition….Recently, we published the first research using advanced scanning to study the brain’s “white matter” across all three disorders. Previous brain imaging studies have examined these disorders separately.

Risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be increased in children of mothers who used medication for gestational diabetes or type 2 diabetes for more than 2 months during pregnancy, new research shows.

For a long time, ADHD was the domain of rowdy little boys. But over the past two decades, clinicians have realized it affects girls, too – differently than it affects boys. These differences explain why many women aren’t diagnosed until adulthood, while their male peers are often diagnosed in elementary school.

[A University of Queensland] Parenting and Family Support Centre Director and study co-author Professor Matt Sanders said a University of Auckland study trialed Triple P Online, a self-directed, interactive positive parenting program currently available free to Queensland families…”This is the first study in the world to demonstrate that an online program can generate improvements for…

Sixty percent of children with ADHD in a recent study demonstrated persistence of symptoms into their mid-20’s, and 41 percent had both symptoms and impairment as young adults.

Young children who die by suicide are less likely to have depression and more likely than their adolescent counterparts to have attention-deficit disorder (ADD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research shows.

Although stimulant medication does not seem to improve homework performance among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), teaching parents techniques for working on their children’s homework problems is clearly effective—to the tune of an average difference between passing and failing–according to a new study.

Racial and ethnic disparities in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication persisted because of fewer diagnoses and treatments in African-American and Latino children as opposed to overdiagnoses and treatments in white children, according to study findings.

Girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder were much more likely to have both internalizing and externalizing disorders than girls without ADHD…Investigators performed a meta-analysis to assess rates of anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder among girls with and without ADHD. The analysis included 18 studies involving almost 2000 girls (77% white; mean age range, 8.5–13.5…

College students who screened positively for internet addiction had higher levels of functional impairment, depression and anxiety, attentional problems and ADHD symptoms, according to data presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress.

A diet high in fat and sugar during pregnancy may interact with a gene that controls early brain development in the fetus, potentially increasing the risk for attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) in some individuals, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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