We’re all familiar with the post-Christmas lull – endearingly and less commonly known as ‘Twixmas.’ You know the feeling: the festivities are largely over and done with, leaving what becomes a no-man’s-land between Christmas and the New Year, when normality typically resumes.

The brains of infants and young children are in continuous and rapid development. These changes are known to go hand in hand with early life learning and the fine-tuning of mental abilities over time.

A major group of international experts and patients have cooperated in defining new parameters for the development of medicines to treat children and young people. They make a series of recommendations on how the processes should be improved. The work is published today in The Lancet Psychiatry.

In a new study, children had 8 – 40% higher odds of a psychiatric condition if their parents scored 1 SD above the mean on the general psychopathology. This demonstrates how parents with psychiatric disorders have a higher likelihood of passing it down to their children.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – An ongoing shortage of ADHD medication has Lowcountry families scrambling to fill their prescriptions and get answers. Just a week away from 2024, there is still no reassurance from manufacturers, although the hope was to have brands of Adderall, Ritalin and generic pills restocked by the beginning of this year.

Drs Bloch and Schepis discuss appropriate prescribing practices and alternate treatment strategies amid the nationwide ADHD medication shortage.

Coping with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) poses distinct challenges for women navigating perimenopause and menopause.

THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Kids with emotional problems or ADHD can find the holidays a very challenging time, as all the routines that provide a sense of order are jumbled in a whirl of activities.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is more often diagnosed in children. That might make you wonder if people grow out it as they reach adulthood. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that involves difficulties focusing attention (for study or work) and/or sitting still or keeping impulsive actions in check. This means people with ADHD are different and…

Wellness firms are exploiting a national shortage of ADHD medication to push so-called “smart supplements” as an alternative to prescribed drugs. As patients struggle to get hold of medication – or face years-long waits for NHS assessments – companies are peddling unproved products as a “natural” treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

A medication used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is being recalled for bottles containing tablets with a higher strength than labelled. The company, JAMP Pharma Corporation, found that some bottles of JAMP Guanfacine extended-release (XR) one-milligram tablets contained four-milligram tablets. One lot, or 100,000 units, is being recalled by the company, Health Canada…

In this Research Roundup, we explore new studies on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), clinical outcomes of medicinal cannabis therapy as an ADHD treatment, and the connections between ADHD and sleep disturbances, pediatric bipolar disorder, and more.