For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a ...

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

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

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

New research suggests that prescription stimulants for ADHD don't actually improve attention directly. They work on different pathways in the brain that support attention. .

Researchers have identified specific coupled patterns of brain activity and gene expression that help explain impulsive ...

While ADHD drugs work on wakefulness, they also mimic the effect of good sleep without fixing a problem. Sleep habits are ...

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 ...

Study shows a developmental lag in a certain brain area in kids with ADHD. Nov. 12, 2007— -- Kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder lag three years behind their peers when it comes to ...

WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medical scan that can help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children by measuring brain waves. The agency said ...

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