A new study suggests that common medications prescribed to help manage ADHD, such as Adderall and Ritalin, may work ...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For decades, doctors assumed ADHD medications like Ritalin and Adderall work by ...

“Despite the name ‘Attention Deficit,’ ADHD is a multifaceted disorder in which difficulty focusing attention is just one component,” Maggie Sweitzer, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences ...

Now, researchers say the stimulants don’t work as previously believed. Instead of affecting regions of the brain that control ...

For decades, ADHD stimulant medications have been thought to sharpen attention, but new research has uncovered something very ...

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and ...

A simple side-by-side video of a mom on and off her ADHD medication has exploded across social media, turning a private ...

ADHD stimulants appear to work less by sharpening focus and more by waking up the brain. Brain scans revealed that these ...

Doctors in the UK are increasingly concerned that a global shortage of ADHD drugs is leading to children going without medication and missing school, and adults self-medicating with alcohol instead.

IT’S A CONFUSING time to have ADHD. There’s misinformation: Of the 100 most-watched TikTok videos about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, about half contain falsehoods (think fearmongering ...

A new study by two academic pharmacists found a “substantial increase” in prescriptions for drugs to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in ...