The stimulants Ritalin and Adderall have been used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for decades, but ...

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

In the United States, an estimated one in nine children has been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is often characterized by impulsivity and difficulty paying ...

A new study suggests that common medications prescribed to help manage ADHD, such as Adderall and Ritalin, may work ...

Now, researchers say the stimulants don’t work as previously believed. Instead of affecting regions of the brain that control attention, the drugs primarily affect the brain’s reward and wakefulness ...

After evaluating scans of almost 5,800 children with and without attention deficit disorder, US researchers discovered that ...

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This international collaboration, including the integration of case-control data from a large independent dataset, significantly enhanced the study and offered an important contribution to ...

The number of ADHD diagnoses in Estonia has surged in recent years, from nearly 3,500 in 2020 to over 12,800 in 2024, driving ...