Los Angeles’ April issue celebrates L.A.’s Top Doctors and features first person accounts of people from all walks of life living with and triumphing over medical adversity. Here, I share my own ...

Lately, U.S. social media has been flooded with news about Alysa Liu, the American figure skater who just won two gold medals ...

What's it like having ADHD when you are 11 years old and are expected to get on with your schoolwork just like everyone else? Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Some ...

A new study reports that the widespread cognitive difficulties in children with learning problems appear to be a core feature of their condition, independent of their attentional behaviors. In ...

The constant friction between a rigid classroom structure and the neurodiverse mind often leads to a cycle of frustration, fatigue, and falling grades. For families managing ADHD, the traditional ...

SAN ANTONIO – As Stephanie Scheller pushes her bow across violin strings, the sound that comes out is emotional and mesmerizing. But to her, the main thing is that it’s calming. “Music actually does ...

It’s surprisingly common for children to have both conditions, CU Boulder researcher Erik Willcutt argues in a recently published paper “A lot of kids tend to have both learning and attentional ...

Both the inattentive and hyperactive symptoms that are characteristic of ADHD can cause difficulties at school. Modern classrooms do not always allow for freedom of movement, hands-on learning, or ...

Picture a student with ADHD whose hallmark symptoms include struggling to sit still and focus for extended periods of time, especially when the subject holds little interest. Then picture that same ...

Roughly 11% of all U.S. children ages 3–17 have been diagnosed with ADHD, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. That’s the equivalent of two to three ...