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Reality TV star says he feels ‘really uncomfortable’ with the term ‘disorder’

Dr Alex George says he 'hates' the name and the word 'disorder', as the former Love Island star comes to terms with his recent ADHD diagnosis after years spent thinking he isn't 'the same as a lot of the others around me'

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It was, to paraphrase the great Eric Morecambe, a conversation containing all the right notes, if not necessarily in the right order – but I learned enough to change my mind about two long-held opinions

It's a highly common disorder that affects millions of people worldwide, but what are the main differences between ADHD signs in children and adults?

Some people use it to improve their focus while others use it to drop off to sleep. The writer Zadie Smith says she listens to it day and night. But what is brown noise? And does it work?

A recent detailed analysis of prescribing trends for ADHD medications in Australia found prescriptions for ADHD medications doubled from 2013 to 2020. While this is clearly an important finding, it needs to be considered within the context of overall rates of prescribing, the recommendations of guidelines and, importantly, the prevalence…

It has taken two years of clinicians, researchers and people with lived experience collaborating on evidence-based Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) guidelines to get to this point.

For the first time in Australia, patients and medical professionals have evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Animal behaviourist Katie Scott-Dyer explains that dogs can show ADHD-like behaviours and it may explain why your pet is having difficulty responding to basic training

Fox recalls ‘counting the number of letters inside of words in my head’