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 ...

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

Stimulants Mimic A Night Of Sound Sleep Rather Than Directly Boost Attention In A Nutshell Not attention networks: ADHD ...

People with ADHD function differently - even when it comes to sleep and relaxation: they are often hyper in the evening, find it difficult to rest and are tired in the morning. That's not good. A ...

New research from Washington University School of Medicine suggests that ADHD stimulant medications, such as Adderall and ...

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

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

Adolescents with ADHD experience sleep disturbances, including shortened sleep duration, as well as impairments in regulation of emotion. Abbreviated sleep contributes to poorer affective functioning ...

The original sleep quote by Shakespeare, paraphrased in the title of this post, refers to Hamlet’s contemplation of death, so the Seinfeld line really gets at the heart of the matter for many adults ...