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Exercise Benefits Memory, Mental Health

May 26th, 2012
Exercise Benefits Memory, Mental HealthResearchers at Dartmouth College have found that exercise can benefit memory, as well as help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Over the past few ...

Post-Term Babies Have More Behavioral, Emotional Problems

May 4th, 2012
Post-Term Babies Have More Behavioral, Emotional ProblemsNew research has found that babies who are post-term — defined as born after a normal-length pregnancy of 42 weeks — are ...

Sleepiness at School May Be Tied to Learning Problems

May 4th, 2012
Difficult to Assess Sleep Problems in ADHD KidsIn a new study, researchers learned that when parents described a child as presenting with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), even ...

Dopamine Affects Willingness to Work

May 2nd, 2012
Dopamine Affects Willingness to WorkA new brain imaging study has found an individual’s willingness to work hard is strongly influenced by the levels of dopamine in three specific areas of the brain. In ...

Innate Neurological Risk for Drug Abuse?

April 30th, 2012
Innate Neurological Risk for Drug Abuse?A new study suggests the way in which the brain is wired in some people may make them more impulsive and more likely to experiment with drugs. In ...

Change of Diet Helps Some Kids with ADHD

April 25th, 2012
Change of Diet Helps Some Kids with ADHDA new report suggests a change in diet can relieve attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in some children. ADHD is ...

Unruly Toddlers at Risk for Adult Gambling Problems

April 24th, 2012
Unruly Toddlers at Risk for Adult Gambling ProblemsA new study suggests children displaying a particular personality profile during toddlerhood may be at high risk for developing ...

Listening In On The ‘Cocktail Party Effect’ In The Brain

April 19th, 2012
Listening In On The Cocktail Party Effect In The BrainSome individuals can focus on a single speaker despite a surrounding environment that obscures a person’s voice. The setting may be a classroom, a ...

ADHD Drug Shortage to End Soon

April 6th, 2012
ADHD Drug Shortage to End SoonAfter months of Americans being unable to fill their drug prescriptions for medications that are commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Multiple Forms of ADHD?

April 3rd, 2012
Multiple Forms of ADHD?New research may help explain the dramatic increase in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder cases. The answer, according to Oregon Health & Science University researchers, is that ADHD is more than ...
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