“Despite the name ‘Attention Deficit,’ ADHD is a multifaceted disorder in which difficulty focusing attention is just one component,” Maggie Sweitzer, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences ...

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

Now, researchers say the stimulants don’t work as previously believed. Instead of affecting regions of the brain that control attention, the drugs primarily affect the brain’s reward and wakefulness ...

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

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas ...

Prescription medicines used to treat ADHD may be working by making one more alert and interested in tasks, rather than ...

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A new finding that one in 10 school-age children has been diagnosed with ADHD isn't all bad news for Minnesota mental health experts, who say it suggests that more undiagnosed children are getting ...