SharpBrains » Attention and ADD/ADHD

As is true for children and adolescents, many adults experience substantial challenges related to having ADHD. These challenges often include relationship problems, educational and work challenge...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2023/11/30/study-finds-positive-self-reported-aspects-of-the-adhd-experience-among-young-women-especially-related-to-hyperactivity-and-hyperfocus/

Many children with ADHD benefit from medication treatment, behavioral treatment, or their combination, but others do not. In addition, parents are often reluctant to start their child on medicati...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2023/09/19/non-invasive-transcranial-electrical-stimulation-tes-shows-early-promise-to-treat-adhd-symptoms-in-children/

Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring this time a range of brain research findings, tools and controversies plus some brain teasers to challenge your (and our) working...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2023/08/31/time-for-a-universal-exercise-prescription-for-kids-and-adults-to-boost-cognition-and-mental-health/

The impact of physical exercise on ADHD has been examined in a large number of studies. Collectively, these studies have examined whether exercise reduces on core ADHD symptoms, e.g., inattention...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2023/08/23/evidence-review-physical-exercise-helps-boost-attention-cognitive-flexibility-and-inhibitory-control-in-children-and-adolescents-with-adhd/

Although ADHD was originally considered to be a disorder of childhood, it has been clear for years that it also impacts adults. At least 60% of children diagnosed with ADHD struggle with symptoms...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2023/06/07/study-self-guided-internet-delivered-treatment-can-significantly-reduce-adhd-symptoms-among-adults/

Palihapitiya-Led SPAC to Merge With Akili in $1 Billion Deal (Bloomberg): Akili Interactive, a startup that has developed a video game to help treat attention-deficit disorders in kids, has agree...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2022/01/26/digital-therapeutics-pioneer-akili-interactive-plans-to-go-public-in-mid-2022-at-a-1b-valuation/

Although medication treatment for ADHD has been shown to significantly reduce core ADHD symptoms in hundreds of studies, important concerns remain about it being prescribed inappropriately to chi...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2022/01/25/are-adhd-medications-overprescribed-or-underprescribed-quick-answer-both/

Multigenerational Study Finds Links Between ADHD, Dementia Risk (Health Day): Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appears to be somehow linked to risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s di...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2021/09/16/study-finds-adhd-is-associated-with-dementia/

Managing attention deficit disorder by training the brain (ScienceDaily): Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects about 7% of children, with a two out of three chance of persistin...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2021/07/08/study-shows-promising-results-of-eeg-based-brain-training-in-helping-adults-with-adhd/

Akili raises $110m to build its digital therapeutics pipeline (pharmaforum): EndeavorRx became the first and so far only approved prescription video game treatment in the US when it was cleared b...

https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2021/05/26/akili-interactive-labs-raises-160m-in-equity-and-debt-to-transform-cognitive-healthcare-via-prescription-videogame-treatments/