Adults who suffer from attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be more than three times as likely to develop Dementia with Lewy bodies.

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Western dietary pattern doubles the risk of diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adolescents.

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Researchers have discovered that a distinct pattern of brain waves occurs a second before a mistake is made as a result of not paying attention. Continue reading…

Approximately 160 medical professionals nationwide are using a new noninvasive laser treatment and biofeedback computer system to help allergy sufferers. Continue reading…

A British millionaire says he has stumbled across a revolutionary drug-free treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Wynford Dore said the unexpected breakthrough came when his company discovered that programmes used to treat dyslexia also had a powerful affect on ADHD. Sufferers of the condition are easily distracted and have trouble concentrating for extended periods Continue reading…

Statins have reversed attention deficits in mice that are linked to the leading genetic cause of learning disabilities in humans, with results so promising that human trials are already under review. Researchers at UCLA used the cholesterol-fighting drugs to treat mice bred to develop the disease, called neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1). Continue reading…

A small study has found that after just three months, children treated with the common ADHD drug methylphenidate had a three-fold increase in cellular abnormalities linked with cancer. The researchers who conducted the study, at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), aren't suggesting that parents take children off the drug Continue reading…

Researchers from Brunel University's School of Sport and Education have discovered, after three years of international research, that attention deficit, impulsivity and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be diagnosed in preschool children using a simple but sophisticated biological test. To date, the diagnosis of the condition is made subjectively by the use of questionnaires. Continue reading…

A DRUG now undergoing testing may have an extraordinary range of applications, if it lives up to expectations. There is evidence that it can lower the risk of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, calm children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), soothe an irritable bowel, help people with an underactive thyroid, reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia and reverse memory loss in the elderly. Continue reading…

(Mobile) February 5 - Prescriptions to treatAttention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorderor A.D.H.D. (also called A.D.D.)are growing at a rapid rate. The number of people diagnosed with A.D.H.D is up more than 700 percent since the early 1990's. Dr. Todd Luellen is a Mobile psychiatrist. He said the most recent studies show up to eight percent of adolescents have A. Continue reading…