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

Now, researchers say the stimulants don’t work as previously believed. Instead of affecting regions of the brain that control ...

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

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

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any moment, the brain is flooded with information, and staying focused depends ...

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

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 ...

The brain, like a surly movie critic or a high school clique, specializes in rejection. The chief rejecter is the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex, just behind your forehead.

“You forgot to include my address on the script, so the pharmacy won’t fill my prescription.” The words fell out of my mouth while I pressed my palm against the edge of my kitchen island. Source: ...

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

These evidence-based approaches help adults with attention challenges thrive in daily life without pharmaceutical interventions. Living with adult attention-deficit ...