WISC.edu - Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as "cognition enhancers" has recently surged among the healthy, as well.
What’s now starting to catch up is knowledge of what these drugs actually do in the brain. In NIMH-sponsored research results published online [...]

UMass.edu - Children with autism and ADHD may soon get anxiety relief from a novel “deep-pressure” vest developed by Brian Mullen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The vest, which can also be used for adults with mental illness, delivers a “portable hug” called deep pressure touch stimulation (DPTS).
“People with developmental disorders and mental illness [...]

AHA - Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should get careful cardiac evaluation and monitoring – including an electrocardiogram (ECG) – before starting treatment with stimulant medications, a new American Heart Association statement recommends. In addition, children currently taking stimulant drugs who did not have an ECG prior to treatment should get an ECG. [...]

UMontreal.ca - Young girls who are hyperactive are more likely to get hooked on smoking, under-perform in school or jobs and gravitate towards mentally abusive relationships as adults, according to a joint study by researchers from the Université de Montréal and the University College London (UCL).
The study, published in the latest issue of the Archives [...]

Washington University School of Medicine - Certain types of tantrums in preschoolers may be a sign of serious emotional or behavioral problems, according to researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Although temper tantrums are common and normal in young children, the researchers found that long, frequent, violent and/or self-destructive tantrums may indicate [...]

Newswise — In an 18-year-study on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Mayo Clinic researchers found that treatment with prescription stimulants is associated with improved long-term academic success of children with AD/HD. The Mayo Clinic results are the first population-based data to show stimulant drug therapy helps improve long-term school outcomes.
A related Mayo Clinic study reveals that compared [...]