A 17-year longitudinal study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheba has followed children from birth to ...

Adults with combined-type ADHD show distinct patterns of sleep-like slow-wave brain activity while fully awake, and those patterns track with attention failures and cognitive dysfunction. The finding ...

Diabetes, multiple sclerosis, severe depression and other ailments have for years been known to increase the risk of dementia later in life. Now a Rutgers researcher and Israeli scientists believe ...

The study is being billed by the university as "the first to study a wide range of factors which link ADHD symptoms and mental ill health symptoms over time." ...

Children with ADHD have notably different brain functioning when they're resting than children who don't have the neurological disorder, according to a national study released this week. Scans of ...

Researchers found that adults with ADHD experience more “local sleep”—sleep-like slow brain waves occurring while ...

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For decades, ADHD stimulant medications have been thought to sharpen attention, but new research has uncovered something very different is at play. These drugs don't actually provide laser-sharp focus ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Researchers have long known that people ...