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ADHD-diagnosis

Study: Having ADHD costs $1.1 million in lower lifetime earnings, even when “treated”

January 14, 2020 by Dr. David Rabiner

 Rel­a­tive­ly few stud­ies have exam­ined the impact of child­hood ADHD on long-term finan­cial out­comes, even though becom­ing self-sup­port­ing and attain­ing finan­cial inde­pen­dence is an impor­tant devel­op­men­tal task.

An espe­cial­ly com­pre­hen­sive look at this issue is pro­vid­ed in a study by Pel­ham et al pub­lished recent­ly in the Jour­nal of Con­sult­ing and Clin­i­cal Psy­chol­o­gy.

The Study:

Par­tic­i­pants were 364 adults who were diag­nosed with ADHD in child­hood along with 264 demo­graph­i­cal­ly matched con­trols. [Read more…] about Study: Hav­ing ADHD costs $1.1 mil­lion in low­er life­time earn­ings, even when “treat­ed”

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adhd, ADHD-diagnosis, adults, children, Clinical Psychology, educational attainment, financial status, lifetime earnings, stimulant medication

Do ADHD drugs really help college students without ADHD?

September 19, 2018 by Dr. David Rabiner

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Over the past 15 years there has been grow­ing aware­ness that many col­lege stu­dents with­out an ADHD diag­no­sis use ADHD drugs. On some cam­pus­es, rates of self-report­ed non-med­ical use have exceed­ed 30% of stu­dents. [Read more…] about Do ADHD drugs real­ly help col­lege stu­dents with­out ADHD?

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: academic-performance., Adderall, ADHD-diagnosis, ADHD-drugs, cognitive-functioning, college, Mental-Health, neurocognitive, psychiatric conditions, Working-memory

Study suggests the real deficit underlying Attention Deficit Disorders is not Attention, but Working Memory

October 26, 2017 by Dr. David Rabiner

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Many par­ents have observed that their child with ADHD stays atten­tive and engaged dur­ing ‘high inter­est’ activ­i­ties, e.g., while play­ing video games, but has con­sid­er­able prob­lems stay­ing focused on less inher­ent­ly engag­ing tasks, e.g., doing school­work. This dis­crep­an­cy in atten­tion dur­ing pre­ferred and non-pre­ferred activ­i­ties has led some to [Read more…] about Study sug­gests the real deficit under­ly­ing Atten­tion Deficit Dis­or­ders is not Atten­tion, but Work­ing Memory

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: academic, ADHD-diagnosis, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, deficits, diagnosis, math, neurocognitive, neurocognitive deficits, Star Wars, video-games, visual-attention, Working-memory, working-memory-training

5 Must-Read Articles, and an Online Course, to Help Children with ADHD

June 21, 2017 by SharpBrains

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– Dr. David Rabin­er, Research Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Psy­chol­o­gy and Neu­ro­science at Duke Uni­ver­sity and founder of the Atten­tion Research Update.

Giv­en the ongo­ing changes and con­tro­ver­sies sur­round­ing ADHD diag­no­sis and treat­ment, let us high­light 5 key arti­cles writ­ten by Duke Uni­ver­si­ty’s Dr. David Rabin­er to sum­ma­rize recent sci­en­tif­ic find­ings and their impli­ca­tions, plus a very rel­e­vant online course to help par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als help chil­dren with ADHD.

1. Study finds large gaps between research and prac­tice in ADHD diag­no­sis and treatment

  • Key insight: Evi­dence-based guide­lines from the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics on the eval­u­a­tion and treat­ment of ADHD are fre­quent­ly not fol­lowed. Many chil­dren are diag­nosed with ADHD in the absence of clear­ly meet­ing DSM diag­nos­tic cri­te­ria, and behav­ioral treat­ment is rarely recommended.
  • Key data point: Pedi­a­tri­cians pre­scribed ADHD med­ica­tion to rough­ly 93% of youth diag­nosed with ADHD. Doc­u­men­ta­tion that behav­ioral treat­ment was rec­om­mend­ed, how­ev­er, was present in only 13% of the charts.

[Read more…] about 5 Must-Read Arti­cles, and an Online Course, to Help Chil­dren with ADHD

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: ADHD-diagnosis, ADHD-Treatment, behavior management, behavioral-therapy, behavioral-treatment, brain-development, diet, DSM, DSM diagnostic criteria, excessive daytime sleepiness, exercise, insomnia, medication, meditation, methylphenidate, Mindfulness-Training, Neurofeedback, sleep, sleep difficulties, supplements, working-memory-training

Study: Rates of ADHD diagnosis and medication treatment continue to increase substantially

March 22, 2017 by Dr. David Rabiner

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Begin­ning in about 1990, sub­stan­tial increas­es in the rates of ADHD diag­no­sis and med­ical treat­ment were found in sev­er­al nation­al­ly rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ples of US physi­cian office vis­its. For exam­ple, between 1995–96 and 2007-08, the num­ber of office vis­its at which an ADHD diag­no­sis was made increased by over 400% in adults — from 3.1 per 1000 vis­its to 14.5 per 1000 vis­its. And, the per­cent of adult office vis­its includ­ing both ADHD diag­no­sis and med­ica­tion increased from 1.9 to 11.4 per 1000 visits.

Among chil­dren aged 5 to 18, between 1991–92 and 2008-09, rates of ADHD diag­no­sis increased near­ly 4‑fold among boys — from 39.5 to 144.6 per 1000 — and near­ly 6‑fold for girls — from 12.3 and 68.5 per 1000 vis­its. Dur­ing this time, the rate of vis­its that also involved med­ica­tion treat­ment increased by sim­i­lar rates. [Read more…] about Study: Rates of ADHD diag­no­sis and med­ica­tion treat­ment con­tin­ue to increase substantially

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: adhd, ADHD diagnoses, ADHD-diagnosis, ADHD-Treatment, brain-development, DSM-V, pediatrician, pharmaceutical, pharmacotherapy

Discouraging new findings about pediatric care for children with ADHD: Often, best-practice guidelines are not followed

May 17, 2016 by Dr. David Rabiner

Most chil­dren with ADHD receive their care from com­mu­ni­ty-based pedi­a­tri­cians. Giv­en the large num­ber of school-age chil­dren who require eval­u­a­tion and treat­ment ser­vices for ADHD, and the adverse impact that poor qual­i­ty care can have on chil­dren’s devel­op­ment, it is impor­tant for chil­dren to rou­tine­ly receive care in the com­mu­ni­ty that is con­sis­tent with best-prac­tice guide­lines. [Read more…] about Dis­cour­ag­ing new find­ings about pedi­atric care for chil­dren with ADHD: Often, best-prac­tice guide­lines are not followed

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: adhd, ADHD-diagnosis, ADHD-Treatment, children, development, hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention, medication, pediatric, pediatric care, treatment monitoring

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