Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can impact many common childhood milestones and cognitive processes, such as decision-making, inhibitory control, language development, and goal-setting.

When it comes to ADHD, there’s not a single magic pill to treat it. No single type of therapy will instantly meet all your child’s needs either. Most kids need a multipronged approach: a combination ...

Now, researchers say the stimulants don’t work as previously believed. Instead of affecting regions of the brain that control ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can impact many common childhood milestones and cognitive processes, such as decision-making, inhibitory control, language development, and goal-setting.

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas ...

A new study suggests that children with ADHD may exhibit a distinctive, measurable pattern of brain activity that could reflect differences in neural efficiency. The researchers focus on aperiodic EEG ...

Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, are widely used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including in children. In the U.S., about 3.5 million children aged 3 ...

For decades, ADHD stimulant medications have been thought to sharpen attention, but new research has uncovered something very ...

“Sit still and pay attention!” I’ll never forget my first grade teacher’s stern words, which played on repeat, no matter how hard I tried to comply. That combination was impossible for what I’d later ...

When I first saw the results, I thought I had just made a mistake because none of the attention systems are changing here,” said Benjamin Kay, one of the study’s authors and a professor of neurology ...