ADHD medications work like sleep, not attention boosters, massive brain study reveals. For some kids, focus problems may be ...

ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

ADHD stimulants appear to work less by sharpening focus and more by waking up the brain. Brain scans revealed that these ...

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and ...

Brain imaging methods like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are used to characterize structural differences in the brains of children with attention-deficit ...

Young adults diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adolescence show differences in brain structure and perform poorly in memory tests compared to their peers, according to ...

In the study led by Rentería's Australian institution, 189 researchers looked through DNA data and MRI scans of 74,898 participants from 19 countries. The scientists found 254 genetic variants that ...

There is a misconception that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be caused by eating too many sweets or bad parenting. Our kids could do better in ...

Children with ADHD often exhibit hyperactivity due to an internal motor they haven't learned to control, not a lack of ...