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August 11

ADHD Aug 11 ADHD Skills Training Keeps Working After the Sessions End, Review Finds The largest review of skills-based therapy for adult ADHD finds daily functioning improves, keeps improving after sessions end, and does not always track symptom change. For parents, that reframes the…

August 10

ADHD Aug 10 The ‘Is ADHD Real?’ TV Fight Buries the Question Parents Need Channel 4's 'The Great ADHD Myth?' drew open letters before an air date existed. Inside the loudest ADHD fight of the year sits a single point of agreement, and for… ADHD Aug 10 ADHD Medication Steadies Brain Networks. It Doesn’t Teach the Skills. A brain-imaging study shows a single dose of ADHD medication steadying children's brain networks, and headlines stopped there. The full picture includes what the study left unmeasured, what pediatric guidance…

August 8

ADHD Aug 8 Responsive Parenting Offset a Prenatal ADHD Risk, New Study Finds Researchers followed 302 families from pregnancy to age three. A biological ADHD risk turned into symptoms only when early caregiving was less responsive than average. Here is why that finding…

August 2

ADHD Aug 2 Brain Training Made Adults With ADHD Feel Sharper. Tests Disagreed. A new trial found adults with ADHD felt sharper after 12 weeks of brain training while objective tests measured no change. What that gap means before your family spends money,…

July 30

ADHD Jul 30 What Florida’s New Child Medication Guidance Gets Right, and What It Risks Florida now urges therapy and lifestyle review before psychiatric medication for children 5 to 17. One side calls it an attack, the other a rescue. Both slogans fail parents. What…

July 27

ADHD Jul 27 What an 18-Year ADHD Study Actually Tells Worried Parents An 18-year study followed children with ADHD into their late twenties. The headline numbers sound grim. The finding underneath them, in the lead author's own words, is the one worried…

July 25

ADHD Jul 25 ADHD Prescriptions Keep Climbing. Help Should Not Wait for a Label ADHD prescriptions in England keep climbing while 800,000 people wait for assessment. Everyone argues about the label. The NHS's own taskforce says the part that matters for parents: help should…

July 22

ADHD Jul 22 ADHD Treatment Order Matters: Behavior Therapy First Beats Medication First Most families hear medication first, skills later. Trials from a pioneering ADHD research center found the reverse order worked better and cost less, and that starting with both at once…

July 20

ADHD Jul 20 Addictive Social Media Use, Not Screen Time, Precedes Boys’ ADHD Symptoms A five-year study of more than 11,000 adolescents found compulsive social media use preceded rising ADHD symptoms in boys. The risk marker was not screen time. Here is what the…