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 ...

In a new study, children played a virtual reality game while in an MRI scanner – the brains of children with ADHD showed a notable increase in functional connectivity, a result which could help us ...

In a novel study, researchers from several European universities have used virtual reality gaming to study brain network activity in children with clinically diagnosed ADHD. Until now, ADHD in both ...

WashU Medicine researchers find stimulant medications don’t affect attention-controlling regions of the brain, as previously thought. Brain scans show the drugs affect brain areas involved in ...

It has long been assumed that psychostimulants help those with ADHD by acting on the brain’s attention circuitry. However, ...