Scientists are mapping the characteristics that adults with ADHD share—and revealing new coping strategies for people living ...

Expert caution against self-diagnosis and encourage people to talk with their healthcare provider if they have symptoms of ADHD. 1 in 4 adults suspect they have undiagnosed ADHD, but the majority ...

Nicole McDermott has worked in the creative content space for the last decade as a writer, editor and director. Her work has been featured on TIME Healthland, Prevention, Shape, USA Today, HuffPost, ...

Your brain, like a surly movie critic or a high school clique, specializes in rejection. The chief rejecter is the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex, just behind your forehead.

With everything there is to juggle in life, it’s easy to assume that everyone experiences that sinking-in-quicksand feeling as they navigate another busy day. But ...

Stimulants and atomoxetine are the only effective interventions to reduce short-term adult ADHD symptoms, yet show limited evidence for long-term outcomes and quality of life improvements, according ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a vetted, evidence-based psychosocial treatment for adult ADHD. Such evidence-based status is established chiefly by way of randomized controlled clinical trials.

It used to be every antsy little boy. Now, with ads touting the benefits of ADD medications for "distracted" or "restless" adults, you'd think we all suffer from the condition. That's not the case, ...

When I was first diagnosed as a child, there wasn’t the ADHD awareness there is today. I was first diagnosed with ADHD at age 11. Twenty years later, that diagnosis would be reaffirmed. Suddenly, ...