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ADHD News-Caregiver

…Our late bloomers don’t have the necessary brain maturity and skills required to juggle the demands of college or a full-time job following high school. Chris Dendy, MS, and Ruth…

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Support Your Future Thinking Skills

…paper to fully support your brain’s executive function of planning and prioritizing or what is often called future thinking. What is future thinking? The typical ADHD brain is most alive…

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Can I Have a Do-Over?

brain-though I didn’t know that was it at the time. I found strength, comfort, and solace in a strong faith community on campus, but centered my schedule and life around…

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The Science of ADHD

…disruption as at least one source of ADHD brain dysfunction. A 10-year study by National Institute of Mental Health found that brains of children and adolescents with ADHD are 3-4%…

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CHADD in the News

…for the day. ADHD can cause a lack of executive functioning skills. This means the part of your brain that regulates how you approach and order your life doesn’t work…

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ADHD, Autism, and More: What Goes Into Getting a Diagnosis?

…prenatal infection or other prenatal trauma, other medical issues after birth such as brain infections, malnutrition, physical and emotional trauma, environmental toxins (the list goes on)-and of course, interactions between…

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ADHD and Relationships: When Love Gets Lost in Translation

…and norepinephrine, the neurotransmitters that “reward” the brain and assist focus, work differently in the ADHD brain. The ADHD brain has less dopamine, for example, so it requires external rewards,…

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What’s Up with All This Anger?

…later but can’t stop. Everybody struggles with these moments. For folks living with ADHD, though, they seem to occur more often and more intensely than for people with neurotypical brains….

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Getting Older with ADHD: What Does “Normal Aging” with ADHD Look Like?

…is difficulty with cognitive control—in other words, challenges regulating thoughts and behaviors. The frontal lobes of the brain are heavily involved in these abilities. Brain scans of adults with ADHD…

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The Rethink Stress Program

…we increase brain activity in the prefrontal cortex and decrease brain activity in the limbic region. What this means on a behavioral level is that we’re now accessing brain regions…

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ADHD and Tics or Tourette Syndrome

…their health care provider carefully assess all symptoms and provide a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation, so that both conditions can be included in multimodal treatment planning. ADHD is a brain-based disorder…

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ADHD News-Caregivers

…ADHD 365 Podcasts Launching successfully is difficult for many young adults with ADHD. Our late bloomers don’t have the necessary brain maturity and skills required to juggle the demands of…

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