Over 5% of children and adolescents are diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) globally. This condition is characterized by a short attention span, hyperactivity or impulsive ...

ADHD affects millions across the lifespan, disrupting school, work and relationships. Once seen as a childhood disorder, it’s ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first brain scan that can help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, The Associated Press reported. The agency cleared the NEBA ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Very preterm infants who received more skin-to-skin contact during their hospital stay showed stronger development in brain ...