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October 13
L-Theanine Was Called a Focus Factor. What Did the Study Find? ADHD L-Theanine Was Called a Focus Factor. What Did the Study Find? Psychology Today called L-theanine a science-supported focus factor. The 2026 study behind it is real, small and narrower than that. It tested L-theanine with caffeine, one dose, in 21 young…
October 12
No Single Test Diagnoses ADHD. Ask What Else Was Checked. ADHD No Single Test Diagnoses ADHD. Ask What Else Was Checked. New ADHD tools are reaching more clinics. But the CDC says there is no single test for ADHD. A real evaluation hears from home and school and rules out other…
October 5
South Korea’s ADHD Drug Surge Tells You Nothing About Your Child ADHD South Korea’s ADHD Drug Surge Tells You Nothing About Your Child ADHD drug tablets in South Korea jumped 37.8% in two years. Korean reporting ties part of it to misuse. A number like that is easy to misread. It says nothing…
September 28
New ADHD Brain Study: Attention Is a Spectrum, Not a Switch ADHD New ADHD Brain Study: Attention Is a Spectrum, Not a Switch Is it ADHD, or is it normal? A new study of over 7,000 kids suggests it is not either-or. Attention seems to run on one scale, diagnosis or not. The…
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September 22
Tisha Campbell Got Her Diagnosis at 57. What It Replaced Matters ADHD Tisha Campbell Got Her Diagnosis at 57. What It Replaced Matters Tisha Campbell was diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 57, after a lifetime of masking. Her relief is real. But the research on what a label does to a child…
September 21
Did Your Diet in Pregnancy Cause Your Child’s ADHD? Not So Fast ADHD Did Your Diet in Pregnancy Cause Your Child’s ADHD? Not So Fast In 2025, headlines told expectant mothers a 'Western' diet raised their child's odds of ADHD. A 2026 genetic follow-up from largely the same research team could not find the causal…
September 20
A High IQ Doesn’t Erase a Child’s ADHD Struggles ADHD A High IQ Doesn’t Erase a Child’s ADHD Struggles A large new study of children diagnosed with ADHD found higher verbal intelligence tracked with less inattention and, at the same time, more impulsivity. Being bright doesn't shield a child…
September 18
New Adult ADHD Guidelines Are Coming. What a Label Actually Does ADHD New Adult ADHD Guidelines Are Coming. What a Label Actually Does The first US guidelines for adult ADHD are heading into final review, arriving alongside a federally documented jump in adult stimulant prescriptions. Lost in the surge is the quieter question… Rationing or Reform? The NHS ADHD Debate Skips the Real Question ADHD Rationing or Reform? The NHS ADHD Debate Skips the Real Question England’s plan to triage ADHD diagnoses has been branded rationing. But the fight over who gets a diagnosis hides a bigger question both sides skip: what a label actually does…
September 17
A Huge New ADHD Study Rethinks What ‘Having It’ Means ADHD A Huge New ADHD Study Rethinks What ‘Having It’ Means Someone told you attention is something a child either has or does not. A new study of 13,527 adults suggests otherwise, and so does decades of child-development science. The better…