Attention depends on the brain’s ability to filter out distractions, but new research suggests this works best when background brain activity is quieter. Scientists found that lowering certain ...

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One was the Danish iPSYCH study, which included data from 14,584 participants diagnosed with ADHD and 22,492 participants without ADHD. Second, data on 2,373 adults obtained from the Taiwan Biobank, ...

The DSM is used by mental health professionals to help standardize the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental ...

Teenagers with ADHD often struggle to focus. Even tasks that seem simple to others—completing homework, studying for a test, or even following a conversation—can feel overwhelming and exhausting. The ...

ADHD doesn’t end when a person leaves childhood. Many adults (like myself) are undiagnosed, because there was limited awareness of the disorder. Instead, we were labeled as forgetful, a space cadet, ...

If you've stumbled onto mental health TikTok, you've probably come across videos listing out traits and tendencies that could mean you have ADHD. Depending on who you ask, this can be a good thing.

Do you find yourself tossing your just-worn sweatshirt onto a growing heap of clothes? Or maybe adding another piece of mail to an already sky-high stack on your kitchen table? If so, you’ve been ...

Much is made of clutter: common sources of clutter, the effects of all that stuff on how we live our lives, the importance of reducing clutter, how to stop clutter before it starts. Then there are the ...

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