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Increased anxiety and depression among collegiate athletes with comorbid ADHD and history of concussion - Moore RD, Kay JJM, Gunn B, Harrison AT, Torres-McGehee T, Pontifex MB.
BACKGROUND: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is prevalent among student-athletes when compared to the general population. Mental health disruptions (i.e., depression or anxiety) are common among student-athletes, and risk of experiencing dep...
Source: SafetyLit - September 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Why Everyone ’ s Worried About Their Attention Span —and How to Improve Yours
Seemingly everyone is concerned about concentration these days. Margaret Sibley, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, specializes in working with adolescents and adults who have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But recently, Sibley says, she and her colleagues have been “inundated” with clients who don’t actually have ADHD—they’re just worried they do.
It’s hard to blame them for worrying. ADHD diagnostic rates are on the rise in the U.S. and posts on TikTok and other social media platforms have convinced...
Source: TIME: Health - August 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Adderall found to make students without ADHD less productive, study says
A new study from researchers in the UK found that people who took ADHD meds who didn't need them were less productive and accurate than they were before taking the medication.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Taking ‘Smart Drugs’ Like Adderall Without ADHD Actually Decreases Productivity
Though college students are known to use prescription stimulants or “smart” drugs to enhance their productivity—including Ritalin and Adderall—a new study finds that using these drugs while not suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder decreases productivity and increases the amount…#mph #ritalin #mod #dex #provigil #fda
Source: Reuters: Health - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Psychopathology and mind wandering in young university students - Gionet S, Arseneau J, Plourde V.
Mind wandering has often been studied in relation to psychopathology. However, debates remain as to whether sluggish cognitive tempo, recently termed cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS), and ADHD symptoms could be unique predictors of mind wandering. Th...
Source: SafetyLit - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Prescription stimulant medical and nonmedical use among US secondary school students, 2005 to 2020 - McCabe SE, Schulenberg JE, Wilens TE, Schepis TS, McCabe VV, Veliz PT.
IMPORTANCE: Recent information on the prevalence of prescription stimulant therapy for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NUPS) at the school-level among US secondary school students is limited. ...
Source: SafetyLit - April 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
In Some U.S. Schools, 1 in 4 Kids Said They ' ve Misused an ADHD Drug
WEDNESDAY, April 19, 2023 -- U.S. schools that have a lot of students with prescriptions for ADHD medication also tend to have a lot of students who misuse the drugs, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that among nearly 3,300 U.S. middle...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Stimulant Misuse Rates Higher in Schools With More Students With Prescriptions
TUESDAY, April 18, 2023 -- Risk for nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NUPS) is higher for schools with a greater proportion of the student body that uses stimulant therapy for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
ADHD medication abuse in schools is a 'wake-up call'
In some middle and high schools in the US, more than 25% of students are misusing prescription stimulants meant to treat ADHD, a new study found.
Source: CNN.com - Health - April 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Up to one in FOUR middle and high school students are abusing Adderall, Govt-funded study finds
Up to 25 percent of students are abusing Adderall in some US schools, a study finds. The drug is meant to treat ADHD, but is often abused as a party drug.
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The brain cells you haven ’t heard about
For years, Baljit Khakh has been studying stars — not those in the firmament but those in our brains. Astrocytes, so named because of their starlike shape, make up around half of our brain cells, but in research they’ve long taken a back seat to neurons.Khakh ’s research is changing that. The professor of physiology and neurobiology still recalls sifting through scientific studies, seeing the progress being made in neuronal research and being struck by how little was known about astrocytes. “The more I read,” he recalled, “the more I became convi nced that key questions remained to be tackled.”To that end,Kha...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 12, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
The great serotonin debate: do depression treatments work by boosting the happy hormone?
Drugs targeting the ‘happy hormone’ are widely used for depression. But some question whether the condition is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brainDaniela da Silva is feeling good. Lying cocooned under fleece blankets inside a medical scanner, her eyes are closed and her mind is focused and remarkably unperturbed by negative thoughts. Three hours earlier, the 39-year-old yoga teacher and neuroscience student was given a dose of the stimulant drug dextroamphetamine, which is often used to treat ADHD. “I’m having a serotonin increase. Oh definitely,” she predicts before entering the PET scanner.Da Silva is a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Tags: Neuroscience Depression Drugs Human biology Medical research Health Society Mental health Counselling and therapy Life and style Source Type: news
Our Relationship With Time Is Changing —Maybe for the Better
It wasn’t long after the pandemic began that people around the world started to notice something weird was going on. As the rhythms of daily life changed, some people’s days seemed to run together; others felt theirs stretched on indefinitely. The sense of what an hour felt like was corroding. News outlets filled with attempts to explain what was happening.
Ruth Ogden, an experimental psychologist who studies time perception at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K., says she had only ever gotten maybe one interview request before the pandemic, and has since received at least a hundred. And while the stud...
Source: TIME: Science - March 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Lily Rothman Tags: Uncategorized Psychology Source Type: news
A trio of Upstate winners highlight major ADHD conference
A resident, medical student and faculty members are honored for their ADHD research.
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - January 26, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Research Source Type: news
Prescription stimulants in college and medical students: a narrative review of misuse, cognitive impact, and adverse effects - Edinoff AN, Nix CA, McNeil SE, Wagner SE, Johnson CA, Williams BC, Cornett EM, Murnane KS, Kaye AM, Kaye AD.
Stimulants are effective in treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Psychiatrist Charles Bradley first made this discovery in 1937 when he found that children treated with amphetamines showed improvements in school performance and behavio...
Source: SafetyLit - January 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
