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

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

ADHD Meds Initiation Linked to Lower Rate of All-Cause Mortality
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 -- For individuals diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), medication initiation is associated with a significantly lower rate of all-cause mortality and unnatural-cause mortality, according to a study... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 12, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

ADHD Meds Cut Odds for Early Death, Especially by Overdose
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 -- People diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show a marked decline in their two-year risk for death once they start taking medication, new research shows. That was particularly true for deaths due... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Starting ADHD Medications May Lower Death Risk
(MedPage Today) -- For patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), starting medication was associated with a significantly lower risk of death, particularly from "unnatural" causes, according to an observational Swedish study... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - March 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Should Women Stop ADHD Meds During Pregnancy?
(MedPage Today) -- Continuing dexamphetamine for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during pregnancy was not associated with a higher likelihood of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes compared with stopping the medication during... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - March 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Corticostriatal causality analysis in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - Zhang F, Li Y, Liu L, Liu Y, Wang P, Biswal BB.
AIM: The effective connectivity between the striatum and cerebral cortex has not been fully investigated in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Our objective was to explore the interaction effects between diagnosis and age on disrupted cortico... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Potential mechanisms underlying suicidality in autistic people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: testing hypotheses from the interpersonal theory of suicide - Moseley RL, Gregory NJ, Smith P, Allison C, Cassidy S, Baron-Cohen S.
BACKGROUND: Autistic people with co-occurring attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appear to be at heightened risk of suicide. To understand why, we explored two explanatory mechanisms from the interpersonal theory of suicide: first, that co-occ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Adults With ADHD Exhibit Camouflaging Behavior
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21, 2024 -- Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) exhibit camouflaging behavior, but to a lesser extent than those with autism, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in Autism Research. Noting that... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

ADHD may have been an evolutionary advantage, research suggests
Traits associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder could have helped early humans when foraging for foodTraits common to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), such as distractibility or impulsivity, might have been an evolutionary advantage for our ancestors by improving their tactics when foraging for food, researchers have said.ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder with symptoms including impulsiveness, disorganisation and difficulty focusing. While estimates of prevalence have varied, diagnoses have been rising in many countries,including the UK.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 21, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Evolution Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Biology Science UK news Society Source Type: news

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults with epilepsy: an indirect relationship with suicide risk - Choi EJ, Jung M, Kim TY, Kim B, Lee SA.
This study aimed to investigate the risk factors for ADHD and determine whether ADHD is directly associated with the risk of suicide in adults with epil... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 20, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Parenting Style Could Influence ADHD Severity in Kids
MONDAY, Feb. 19, 2024 -- A shift in parenting early in a child ' s development might help curb the symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research suggests. When a preschooler exhibits an " excitable or exuberant " ... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news