Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas involved with wakefulness and reward, rather than attention ...

For years, stimulant medications for ADHD have been described as chemical accelerators, framed as drugs that rev up a sluggish brain. New imaging work turns that story on its head. Brain scans now ...

After evaluating scans of almost 5,800 children with and without attention deficit disorder, US researchers discovered that ...

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