Scientifically speaking, treatment options for students with attention deficits have long been limited. Outside of stimulant medication, and some behavior-modification strategies, few interventions ...

Distance learning is a big challenge for many students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other learning disabilities. And making it work often requires parents to become educators.

North Alabama parents are in their third or fourth week of distance learning - and many of them are finding out for the first time what their children’s teachers see every day. This can be especially ...

Children are bored, isolated, and oversaturated with technology, but what’s new? Well for starters, during lockdowns their parents got a glimpse of what teachers see every day. That led to something ...

University of Kansas students with ADHD adapt to college through personalized “hacks" and open conversations about mental ...

In a systematic review published in the journal Brain Sciences, scientists have discussed the utility and usefulness of social robots and brain-computer interface video games in treating young people ...

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For decades, many physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with ADHD learn because they are able to focus and behave better when medicated. After all, an ...

Does it ever seem like you have too much to do and every task looks equally important? Many people with ADHD struggle to figure out the order of doing things and how to begin, which contributes to the ...

The introduction of computer simulation to the identification of symptoms in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has potential to provide an additional objective tool to ...

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

William E. Pelham, Jr. receives funding from organizations including but not limited to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Institute of Education ...