Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas ...

ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

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

ADHD medications work like sleep, not attention boosters, massive brain study reveals. For some kids, focus problems may be ...

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

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD in short, is a long-term condition that includes a combination of different ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

More than 3 million children take medication to manage ADHD symptoms. Discover how new research suggests they may work a ...

Study shows a developmental lag in a certain brain area in kids with ADHD. Nov. 12, 2007— -- Kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder lag three years behind their peers when it comes to ...

WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medical scan that can help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children by measuring brain waves. The agency said ...

For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a ...