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4 stories tagged "adhd"
A Protein That Should Surge Before Birth Went Flat in Pregnancies Later Linked to Childhood ADHD
Each standard-deviation drop in third-trimester placental growth factor came with 2.6 times the odds of a later ADHD diagnosis, and the signal held even after researchers accounted for preeclampsia, growth restriction, and early preterm birth.
Brain & AgingFour Times the Odds of Losing Bowel Control: An ADHD Gut Signal Tangled Up With the Medication
Stimulants list constipation, nausea, and stomach pain among their common side effects. Most of the 23 studies pooling 1.9 million people never separated the medicated from the unmedicated, so the gut signal and the drug effect sit tangled together.
Brain & AgingThe ADHD Creativity Bump Is Modest, and It Fades Right Where the Symptoms Turn Clinical
The headlines sell the wandering ADHD mind as a hidden creative gift. The data underneath shows the edge is modest and flattens right as symptoms cross into the clinical range.
Brain & AgingLead Strips Dopamine From the Exact Brain Circuit ADHD Drugs Are Built to Rescue
Childhood lead keeps landing on the same target: the striatal dopamine circuit that ADHD drugs are built to rescue. A Philadelphia cohort just tied it to real diagnoses, not test scores.