ADHD Medications Linked to Reduction in Psychiatric Hospitalizations
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 -- For adolescents and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the use of ADHD medications is associated with fewer psychiatric and nonpsychiatric hospitalizations, according to a study published online... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 22, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Motor Skills, Sensory Features Differ in Autism With, Without ADHD
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 -- Motor skills and sensory features differ for children with autism with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study published online March 5 in the Journal of Autism and Developmental... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 22, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
ADHD Medications Might Help Prevent Drug & Alcohol Overdose
A recent study found that ADHD medications was linked to lower rates of premature deaths from unnatural causes like accidental drug and alcohol overdoses. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Anuradha Varanasi, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
Prevalence of ADHD 11.3 Percent for Children Aged 5 to 17 Years in 2020 to 2022
WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2024 -- The prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was 11.3 percent among children aged 5 to 17 years during 2020 to 2022, according to a March data brief published by the National Center for Health... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 20, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
One in SEVEN boys under 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD - as doctors slam 'preposterously high' figure that is four-fold the prevalence in the UK
A CDC-led report found 11.3 percent of children aged 5 to 17 years old had the condition overall over the three years to 2022, with ADHD linked to trouble concentrating and hyperactive or fidgety behavior. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Psilocybin for Depression Win; 1 in 10 Kids Have ADHD; Loneliness in Middle Age
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted CYB003 -- an investigational depression treatment that acts as a deuterated psilocybin analog -- a breakthrough therapy designation after patients achieved an average 22-point symptom reduction in Montgomery... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - March 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
One in 10 U.S. School-Age Kids Have ADHD: Report
WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2024 -- About 1 in every 10 U.S. children ages 5 to 17 has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the latest government statistics.
The data from the National Health Interview Survey... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
ADHD Meds Linked To Lower Mortality Rates, Study Finds
Treatment with medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is linked to lower unnatural deaths. Navigating treatment is an increasing challenge. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 19, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jesse Pines, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
Kate Silverton says being too quick to diagnose children with ADHD can be 'debilitating' for them
Newsreader-turned-child therapist, Kate Silverton, 53, has warned against prematurely putting children on ADHD medication as they may simply be struggling to deal with difficult emotions. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Stop Procrastinating at Bedtime and Actually Go to Sleep
Once I finally tuck my kids into bed, clean the kitchen, and shoot off my last work email of the night, it’s “me” time. It’s also, cruelly, bedtime. I know I should sleep, but instead I stay up way too late binge-watching Love Is Blind or mindlessly scrolling on Reddit. I need rest, but I push it off. This is my only uninterrupted time, and I want to maximize it.
This phenomenon is so universal that there’s a scientific name for it: “bedtime procrastination.” According to the researchers who coined it in a 2014 study, bedtime procrastination is “failing to go to bed at th...
Source: TIME: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Friedlander Serrano Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
ADHD and family life: a cross-sectional study of ADHD prevalence among pupils in China and factors associated with parental depression - Lu T, Li L, Tang Y, Leavey G.
BACKGROUND: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is increasingly recognized as a major problem for children and their families in China. However, its influence on parental mental health has been seldom explored. OBJECTIVE: To examine the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Examining cognitive disengagement syndrome in a psychiatric outpatient sample: psychometric support and associations with internalizing symptoms and sleep problems - Yucens B, Ba şay Ö, Büber A, Tumkaya S, Kabukçu Başay B, Erdem B, Becker SP, Leonard Burns G.
OBJECTIVE: The internal (structural) and external validity of a self-report measure of cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS, formerly sluggish cognitive tempo) relative to a self-report measure of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-inattention (ADHD... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Half of this company is neurodivergent
Sasha Boersma occasionally gets a calendar booking from one of her dozen or so employees for a quick meeting. The employee has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and just wants to talk. More specifically, they’re struggling to stay awake and need someone to draw their attention for twenty…#sashaboersma #stickybrainstudios #montreal #zeracafé #deloitte #stickybrains #samueldunsiger #stickybrainss (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kids With ADHD Have Atypical Brain Wiring, NIH Study Finds
Researchers found unusual, increased neural connections in the brains of children with ADHD in a large National Institutes of Health study published Wednesday. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 14, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Alison Escalante, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Editors' Pick editors-pick standard Source Type: news
NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated With ADHD in Youth
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are tied to atypical interactions between the brain ’s frontal cortex and information processing centers deep in the brain. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)
Source: National Institute of Mental Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: National Institute of Mental Health Source Type: news
