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

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

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 ...

WashU Medicine researchers find stimulant medications don’t affect attention-controlling regions of the brain, as previously ...

A new study suggests that children with ADHD may exhibit a distinctive, measurable pattern of brain activity that could ...

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

Brett Greene, executive coach, ADHD coach, and founder/CEO of New Tech Northwest, at the GeekWire offices in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we get a deeper ...

The team observed that heightened iron levels in the brain were associated with increased NfL levels. This suggests iron-driven axon damage may happen before cognitive decline. Accumulation of iron in ...

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 ...

“Genetic variants associated with larger brain volumes in key brain regions also increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease, while variants linked to smaller brain volumes in key regions are associated ...

Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, are widely used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ...