Psychology Professor Amy Stamates aims to understand how alcohol use, cravings change in people with and without ADHD

An international team of researchers led by King’s College London has identified genetic factors that may make some individuals more or less sensitive to the environments they experience. Published in Nature Human Behaviour, the study examined how individuals’ varying sensitivity to environmental factors can influence levels of ADHD symptoms, autistic traits, anxiety and depression symptoms,…

Key Takeaways: Telehealth patients were not more likely to develop substance use disorder; Researchers found that a small number of people who received initial stimulant prescription via telehealth developed stimulant disorder and emphasize the importance of follow-up care

Conditions like A.D.H.D. and autism can make starting and completing tasks feel impossible, but experts say there are workarounds.

Busy Philipps and Ann Childress, MD, explore the unique challenges women face in ADHD diagnosis, highlighting personal stories and the importance of treatment.

[Excerpt] Bill S795 by Sen. Alana DiMario, a Narragansett Democrat, passed 36-0 and now joins the amended version of bill H5866 by Portsmouth Democratic Rep. Michelle McGaw, which passed the House 70-0 on April 22. Now each bill awaits a committee hearing in the opposite chamber. Both bills would allow for non-opioid Schedule II stimulants…

Consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen is sounding the alarm about potential risks for birth defects associated with modafinil (Provigil) and armodafinil (Nuvigil), two stimulants commonly prescribed during pregnancy. The group argued that animal toxicity studies and post-marketing observational studies have turned up sufficient evidence to justify additional precautions for pregnant patients.

Summary: New research identifies a promising strategy for correcting dopamine imbalances in the brain using a drug that blocks kappa opioid receptors (KOR). In mouse models with a rare mutation that causes dopamine to leak abnormally, KOR blockers reduced this leakage and restored normal behavior. This approach could offer safer treatment alternatives for conditions like…

[Excerpt] Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and King’s College London recently carried out a large-scale statistical analysis aimed at comparing the patterns of communication between different regions in the brains of individuals diagnosed with ASD with those observed in the brains of individuals with ADHD. Their findings, published in Nature Mental Health, suggest…

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Mental Health, researchers in the United States investigated and compared the genetic relationships and causal links between cannabis use, cannabis use disorder (CanUD), and a wide range of psychiatric disorders.

LOS ANGELES — The novel norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin reuptake inhibitor (NDSRI) centanafadine (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) is effective and “clinically meaningful” for adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research suggested. In a combined analysis of two phase 3 trials with a total of 859 adults, more patients who received the NDSRI had at least an…

Key Takeaways: An intervention for parents of children with both asthma and ADHD reduced unscheduled healthcare visits compared with usual care. Asthma control improved significantly, as did parent-rated ADHD symptoms. The study was limited by its focus on families in Hong Kong, with unknown generalizability to U.S. care settings.