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As awareness of the symptoms of ADHD in adults, in general, and women, in particular, increases, more and more people are seeking diagnosis and treatment. One recent study suggests that ADHD ...
The research, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry, examined the anonymised primary care data of 30,029 adults across the UK with diagnosed ADHD, and compared them to 300,390 adults ...
Large, high quality research has found small differences in the brain between ADHD and non-ADHD patients. [1] [15] Jonathan Leo and David Cohen, critics who reject the characterization of ADHD as a disorder, contended in 2003 and 2004 that the controls for stimulant medication usage were inadequate in some lobar volumetric studies, which makes it impossible to determine whether ADHD itself or ...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder management options are evidence-based practices with established treatment efficacy for ADHD.Approaches that have been evaluated in the management of ADHD symptoms include FDA-approved pharmacologic treatment and other pharmaceutical agents, psychological or behavioral approaches, combined pharmacological and behavioral approaches, cognitive training ...
Males with ADHD, children, and adults exhibit higher rates of externalizing disorders or behaviors that manifest as aggressive, disruptive, rule-breaking behaviors, making them more likely to be referred for ADHD treatment. Adult males with ADHD are also more likely to display antisocial behaviors associated with antisocial personality disorder ...
For the first time ever, the FDA approved a video game as part of a treatment for children diagnosed with ADHD. The game, called EndeavorRx, is for kids aged eight through 12 to improve attention ...
This is a list of investigational attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drugs, or drugs that are currently under development for clinical use in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but are not yet approved.
Other recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses, however, find certainty in the safety and high efficacy of methylphenidate for reducing ADHD symptoms, [241] [276] [277] for alleviating the underlying executive functioning deficits, [278] and for substantially reducing the adverse consequences of untreated ADHD with continuous treatment. [8]