The brain, like a surly movie critic or a high school clique, specializes in rejection. The chief rejecter is the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex, just behind your forehead.

The DSM is used by mental health professionals to help standardize the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental ...

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With everything there is to juggle in life, it’s easy to assume that everyone experiences that sinking-in-quicksand feeling as they navigate another busy day. But if you find this feeling is paired ...

Nicole McDermott has worked in the creative content space for the last decade as a writer, editor and director. Her work has been featured on TIME Healthland, Prevention, Shape, USA Today, HuffPost, ...

(Mass Appeal) – I’m pretty confident that most of you have heard of ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and I’m sure we’ve all heard of it diagnosed in kids. But did you know it also ...

ADHD, which stands for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, is a neurodevelopmental disorder that’s typically diagnosed in children. But according to data from the National Center for Health ...

When asked to picture someone with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, the common stereotype is a child, usually a young boy, who is disruptive and has a lot of ...