WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For decades, doctors assumed ADHD medications like Ritalin and Adderall work by ...

For decades, ADHD stimulant medications have been thought to sharpen attention, but new research has uncovered something very ...

Now, researchers say the stimulants don’t work as previously believed. Instead of affecting regions of the brain that control ...

Stimulant drugs that are widely used in the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a different ...

“Despite the name ‘Attention Deficit,’ ADHD is a multifaceted disorder in which difficulty focusing attention is just one component,” Maggie Sweitzer, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences ...

ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

A new study proved ADHD stimulants do not improve attention but stimulate other parts of the brain. If children don't obtain ...

ADHD stimulants appear to work less by sharpening focus and more by waking up the brain. Brain scans revealed that these ...

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD in short, is a long-term condition that includes a combination of different ...

While ADHD drugs work on wakefulness, they also mimic the effect of good sleep without fixing a problem. Sleep habits are ...

Scientists are mapping the characteristics that adults with ADHD share—and revealing new coping strategies for people living ...