ADD/ADHD News

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.

Neuroscience specialty pharmaceutical company OWP Pharmaceuticals Inc. has partnered with Eversana, a provider of global services to the life sciences industry, to launch oral liquid formulations for treating neuroscience disorders.

Children and youth with more screen time had increased risk for poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to results of a longitudinal cohort study conducted in Canada and published in JAMA Network Open.

The presence of neurodevelopmental or mental disorders or self-harm before age 24 years increased risk for missing school, according to results of a nationwide, retrospective, electronic cohort study.

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.

Ann Childress, MD, president of the Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Inc., discussed ADHD data from a poster presented at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference in a video interview with Healio.

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.

The transmission of psychiatric disorders to first-degree relatives is higher among those related to patients with bipolar disorders, according to data published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

The American Academy of Family Physicians’ web-based Adult ADHD Toolkit “measurably increased” awareness of the disorder among health care providers, researchers wrote.

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.