But some experts still believe behavioral therapy can help the whole family By Barbara Bronson Gray HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) — Many parents pursue costly and time-consuming treatments to help their children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Now, a new study finds little evidence that non-drug interventions reduce key symptoms of ADHD. A multinational team of experts identified no positive effects from psychological treatments including mind exercises (cognitive training), neurofeedback and behavioral training (positive reinforcement). And the researchers discovered only small benefits associated with dietary treatments: supplementation with omega-3 and omega-6 free fatty acids, and elimination of artificial food coloring. Still, parents shouldn't be discouraged, said study co-author Dr.…

                        Psychiatrists are waking up to the world of sleep and behavior. Just as the biological revolution witnessed a collapse of barriers between the physical and the mental, so the boundary between sleep and wakefulness is crumbling. The emerging discipline of sleep medicine, baptized in the discovery of REM sleep in 1953 and by the characterization of sleep cycles a few years later, initially focused on adult physiology and sleep disorders.   Sleep, cognition, and behavior Serious sleep problems usually imply either too much or too little sleep. Too little sleep can mean abbreviated sleep episodes, as might be…

By Faith Brynie, Ph.D.Created Jul 8 2012 – 11:17am       Findings from the first study directly examining gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentrations in the brains of children with ADHD were published last week in the Archives of General Psychiatry. In this new article researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report finding significantly lower concentrations of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the cerebral cortexes of children diagnosed with ADHD, compared with typically developing children. GABA is the brain’s main inhibitory neurotransmitter. The differences were detected in the region of the brain that controls voluntary movement.The researchers used a relatively innovative and novel technique in which GABA is measured using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS),…

Is it ADHD/ADD or Are We Just Overloaded? So is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) a real thing, or is it just a byproduct of the times we live in?

Oops, forgot to let the dog out. Need to pick up the dry cleaning. Anyone seen my keys? If these scatterbrained thoughts are du jour, you could be one of an estimated 6-15 million ADHD adults. Learn more about the symptoms of ADHD… Your inattention and restlessness may not just be your quirky personality. You could have ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), a behavioral disorder that’s mostly associated with unruly children. In fact, about 65% of children with ADHD carry the disorder into adulthood, making it an adult problem too.

The idea that removing certain foods from the diet to help control ADHD symptoms has a great appeal — and a significant following — but critics say the latest ADHD diet study is short on evidence. By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011 – A limited diet that focuses on a few selected foods including rice, meat, and vegetables may provide symptom relief for children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, researchers said, but skeptics question the validity of their study. After five weeks, 64 percent of those on a restricted diet had significant improvement in symptoms; no improvement was seen in those who were not on the…

Can a Child’s Birthday Predict ADHD?  Hello. My name is Dr. Robert Findling. I am the director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital Case Medical Center and I am a Professor of Psychiatry in Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. Today in this posting, I’ll be talking about 2 articles that consider the same topic: the relationship between a child’s birthday, and the incidence with which they are diagnosed and treated for ADHD [attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]. These 2 articles were published in September’s issue of the Journal of Health Economics.

One Man’s Personal Battle with Adult Attention Deficit Disorder by Jeff Hamilton A Happy ADD Brain for Health, Happiness & Romance? Healthy brain chemistry with amino acids and other foods January 20, 2011 Since I started winning the battle against ADD years ago, I found reading to be much more enjoyable. Doesn’t matter what way you slice and dice it, I’m never going to be able to sit down and read a book for two straight hours. It’s not gonna happen!

When you focus on your partner’s gifts, you make them more likely to cooperate with your desire for them to pay attention to you and follow through on commitments. When you focus on your partner’s gifts, you make them more likely to cooperate with your desire for them to pay attention to you and follow through on commitments. Why is that?

 Research published today provides the first direct evidence that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a genetic condition. Scientists at Cardiff University found that children with ADHD were more likely to have small segments of their DNA duplicated or missing than other children. The study also found significant overlap between these segments, known as copy number variants (CNVs), and genetic variants implicated in autism and schizophrenia, proving strong evidence that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder – in other words, that the brains of children with the disorder differ from those of other children.