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/PRNewswire/ -- New research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition further supports that daily consumption of wild blueberries improves...

Executive dysfunction, common with ADHD, impairs planning, prioritization, memory, execution, and emotional regulation. Here’s how to identify the signs of executive function disorder.

Late last year, over Thanksgiving and Christmas, I spent the worst two months of my entire life in an upscale suburb of greater Los Angeles.

This cohort study analyzes data for children from the population-based study Growing Up in Singapore Toward Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) to examine the associations

Trichotillomania (hair pulling) and skin picking disorders are common among children with ADHD. Understand how to treat BFRB here.

Objective: Although person-centred outcome measures have been recommended to evaluate cognitive rehabilitation interventions, few validated measures have been developed for this purpose. The current study examined aspects of feasibility, reliability and validity of a modified version of goal attainment scaling that uses a goal menu, calculator and control goals. Method: Participants were N=25 female residents of a substance use disorder therapeutic community who were allocated to a four-week cog...

Cognitive rehabilitation and mindfulness seem promising in the treatment of cognitive problems among patients with multiple sclerosis.

Cognitive rehabilitation and mindfulness seem promising in the treatment of cognitive problems among patients with multiple sclerosis.

This study aimed to explore cross-sectional associations between executive function (EF), and community and household factors (household SES, caregiver education, home learning environment, caregiver/child interaction, caregiver wellbeing, and exposure to community violence) in a sample of children from very low-SES settings in Cape Town, South Africa. Results revealed that children exposed to higher levels of violence perform worse on inhibition tasks. No other associations were significant, hi...

For children and adults suffering from ADHD, neurostimulation techniques have shown promise as an alternative to treatment with drugs.