There are now 2.6 million people in the UK with ADHD – and diagnoses are on the rise. Looking at 18 years of anonymised NHS patient records, researchers at University College London noted a 20-fold ...
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is not just a problem for kids—the symptoms can persist well into adulthood. And more and more adults are affected by it: Between 2008 and 2012, the ...
The overall prevalence of adult ADHD is 4.4%, according to the National Institute of Mental Illness. And although symptoms start in early childhood and continue into adulthood, adult ADHD symptoms may ...
October marks Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) awareness month and the focus this year is on the many faces of ...
Leonard Sax earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in five semesters at the age of 19. He ...
There is no clear dividing line between those who are diagnosed with ADHD and those who are not since ADHD—much like blood ...
It can be challenging to write an article such as this, because, as in politics where passions flare vehemently, so too do they in the ADHD debate. Is it genetic? Is it socially constructed? Does it ...
“There are more kids in Spokane on ADD medication than in all of France,” Dr. Leonard Sax said during our conversation about raising boys for last week’s column. Sax, the author of the insightful ...