ADD/ADHD News

Children born before 39 weeks are more likely to experience symptoms related to ADHD, according to data published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Pediatric behavioral health company Elemy has announced centralized diagnosis-to-treatment services to provide faster clinical support and comprehensive care for children suffering from behavioral, emotional and developmental disorders.

Children with ADHD exhibited modest differences on structural brain measures compared with peers without ADHD, according to results of a cross-sectional population-based study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Children born to mothers with active eating disorders during pregnancy demonstrated an elevated risk for developing ADHD and autism spectrum disorders, according to a Swedish population-based cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Timing of and risk for childhood neurodevelopment disorder diagnoses is linked to various socioeconomic factors including insurance enrollment, according to a U.S. population-based cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Azstarys significantly improved ADHD symptoms in children aged 6 to 12 years vs. placebo, according to results of a randomized, controlled laboratory classroom study published in Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

How infants spontaneously play in their daily environments may help them develop everyday learning faculties and grow cognitive, social and language abilities, according to a study published in Child Development.

Maternal grandmothers who were underweight before becoming pregnant were more likely to have a grandchild diagnosed with ADHD than women in other BMI categories, a cohort study showed.

Children with ADHD, autism and other comorbid neurodevelopmental diagnoses who had well-controlled ADHD medication use for 1 year had improved cognitive test scores and ADHD symptoms, according to a Journal of Psychiatric Research study.

The assumption that half of childhood ADHD cases remit by adulthood may be inaccurate, as symptoms fluctuate into adulthood in most cases, according to results of a multimodal treatment study published in American Journal of Psychiatry.