For decades, scientists have been making claims about the genetic roots of mental illness, ranging from schizophrenia and depression, to bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder (ADHD). And for ...

The unconference MentalHealthCamp on social media and mental health happens on April 25 in Vancouver, BC and online. Organizers hope it will become a model adopted elsewhere in the world. The one day ...

Planning on attending college or university in the fall, but also grapple with attention deficit disorder (ADHD)? Tara Parker-Pope last week wrote a fantastic article in The New ...

An article about ADHD treatment for adults attracted some negative comments today. Some Twitter friends described them as trolls, and when I nitpickingly said that they aren't trolls, they're antipsychiatry activists, I was asked ...

The conventional wisdom is that a child or teen with attention deficit disorder should be started on ADHD medications (such as Ritalin or Adderall) right away. Sometimes some type of psychotherapy may be recommended, with ...

Perhaps not surprisingly, research published last year showed that more marriages ended in divorce when the parents had a child diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADHD). The statistic researchers found is eye-opening -- such marriages ...

If you're a company and need people to stop using your old widget and start buying more of your new widget, what's the best way to do that? If you're a pharmaceutical company, you also need ...

Yesterday, the L.A. Times published an op-ed piece from a psychiatrist describing the epidemic of over-prescription of medications for our children. The boy, a quiet slip of a 10-year-old, had been prescribed two antipsychotics, two ...

During a routine review of the safety of Johnson & Johnson's atypical antipsychotic Risperdal and Eli Lilly’s Zyprexa, a panel of experts consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressed their concern for ...

With the focus on conflicts of interest by U.S. researchers in the spotlight in the past year (due to Sen. Grassley's continuing investigation into researchers who failed to disclose millions of dollars in incomes from ...

Do you love Facebook? Well, we do too and now you can show your love by checking out our new Facebook ADHD Quiz, which allows you to take (and re-take) the ADHD quiz as ...

As we reported on Friday, a small, 17-person study published by researchers from the University of Illinois suggested they had the perfect treatment for kids with attention deficit disorder (ADHD) -- a walk in ...