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“Essentially, we found that stimulants pre-reward our brains and allow us to keep working at things that wouldn’t normally hold our interest.” – Dr. Nico Dosenbach, Washington University School of Medicine

Mean adjusted adult BMI was significantly higher among individuals with childhood ADHD compared with controls, with the highest BMI observed in those treated with MPH for ≥365 days.

Although not remarkably high, a 2.8% development of psychotic symptoms represents a nonnegligible figure and lends further meta-analytic support to the 2007 FDA change in the drug label for stimulants.

Progress in perinatal care has improved survival for children born very preterm (VPT), but these children remain at higher risk of cognitive impairment compared with children born at term.

“These autism sensory differences—from altered habituation patterns in utero to atypical newborn responses—offer clinicians measurable indicators that precede behavioral presentations.”

Triple-release dexmethylphenidate formulation demonstrated dose-dependent ADHD symptom improvements with effect sizes ranging from 0.737 to 1.185 across all tested doses in pediatric patients.