Key point: Lower executive function in early adolescence was consistently associated with concurrent and future attention problems, underscoring the need to examine the neural correlates of the executive function and attention problem outcomes.

Researchers examined how diet, sleep, physical activity, and television viewing relate to school performance, while accounting for demographic factors and neurodevelopmental disorders.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) – Lucinda Bowman spent decades as a speech pathologist working in schools, hospitals and clinics across the country before learning, at age 47, that she has ADHD. “I call it discombobulated, just kind of a chaos in your brain,” Bowman said. “And people might even say, oh, you’re totally together. But it’s…

School used to be pretty easy for Kate Jarvis when she was a little girl, back in the 1980s. She was a straight-A student, creative, and so organized that she’d even prep her toothbrush with toothpaste each night before school. She says her mother used to call her “bright-eyed and bushy tailed.”

Federal regulators have approved a new medication to help manage attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). SIMTRIYO is a daily tablet authorized for adults and children 6 years and older who weigh at least 44 pounds. Experts say the new medication could be an important additional asset in the treatment and management of ADHD.

Centanafadine, a first-in-class norepinephrine-dopamine-serotonin reuptake inhibitor (NDSRI), awaits a regulatory decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday, July 24. Ahead of the FDA action, review the path of Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s centanafadine for treatment of ADHD.

People with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, alcohol addiction, or psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia show increased brain aging, each in specific patterns within the brain, according to a study published July 21st in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Shile Qi from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, and colleagues.

[Excerpt] The Background: Interest in training these skills has grown rapidly, but most research has been conducted in Western settings. China presents a distinctive context. Collectivist values make group-based programs culturally natural, and parental investment in academic outcomes is high. Both of these factors should, in theory, work in an intervention’s favor. At the same…

Seeing a psychiatrist via telehealth became easier from January 2022. That’s when Medicare-reimbursed telepsychiatry arrangements became permanent. The idea was for these video and phone consultations to provide more flexible and sooner appointment times, without needing to travel. But our new analysis shows what happened next.

It can be eye-opening to walk through your school with a student persona in mind, and the audit tool included here can help you find and fix friction points and improve students’ sense of belonging.

Pediatricians who participated in the collaborative mental health program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago were more likely to diagnose and treat anxiety and depression in kids without reliance on additional support from specialists, according to a study published in Academic Pediatrics. Findings suggest that the program – called Mood, Anxiety,…

‘Popcorn brain’ is when someone jumps from one task to another, like watching a movie and then scrolling on Instagram, but is different from ADHD. NBC News’ Dr. Akshay Syal talks about who may have it and how to treat it.