May 7, 2008 (Washington, DC) — A large neuroimaging study found that in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), brain development follows a normal trajectory, but maturation of the prefrontal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have ADHD, you know that the symptoms can range from classic to complicated. You might be well-acquainted with common ...

In this Q&A, lead author Dr. Nanfang Pan explains how researchers used structural MRI, normative brain modeling, and machine learning to identify three ADHD biotypes. Each subtype showed distinct ...

Diagnoses of autism and other neurodivergence are rising. Jessica Eccles and Elizabeth Weir say that the trend is real—and that claims of “overdiagnosis” and insistence on exact case numbers are ...

It's not just for kids anymore.

HWhen Mark Twain’s hero Huckleberry Finn was forced to study spelling for an hour every day, he said, "I couldn’t stand it much longer. It was deadly dull, and I was fidgety.” His teacher, Miss Watson ...

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder often struggle to automatically track where other people are looking. A recent study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders revealed ...

The history of psychiatry is filled with fads. A diagnosis quickly gains momentum, is pushed by thought leaders, captures the imagination of clinicians, picks up widespread media attention, and soon ...

New knowledge: Children with ADHD sleep both poorly and less A new study from Aarhus University has now documented that there is some truth to the claim by parents of children with ADHD that their ...

If you have ADHD, you know that the symptoms can range from classic to complicated. You might be well-acquainted with common symptoms like hyperfocus or difficulty getting on task, but even for people ...