Tag: ADHD

From The Guardian. “Proposals to limit the number of patients being formally diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been attacked as “rationing” healthcare...

The Great ADHD Myth: What you Need to Know About Channel 4’s “Most Controversial Show of the Year”

From the Teachers Talk Radio podcast. "Is ADHD best understood as a brain condition, a useful diagnostic construct or a label for a collection...

From The Guardian. “People are increasingly seeking to an obtain an ADHD diagnosis without pursuing treatment, according to experts who have called for more...

Physician-anthropologist Khameer Kidia examines how violence and inequality shape mental distress, arguing for patient autonomy, community care, and structural change beyond diagnosis, medication, and individualized psychiatric treatment.

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of pharmaceuticals is a controversial topic within healthcare and psychiatry, with only two countries (US and New Zealand) allowing this practice....

From the Times Educational Supplement Magazine. "The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in...

The public narrative on ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence is infused with scientism, meaning faith-based claims masquerading as scientific ones.

“The main take-home message is that regulatory approval doesn't mean a device works. It means it's safe,” according to Katya Rubia, PhD.

In our first podcast of 2026, Robert Whitaker joins us to answer questions submitted by Mad in America readers and listeners. We discuss the validity of ADHD diagnoses, withdrawal and sexual dysfunction risks of SSRI antidepressants, the harms of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), the rise of AI-generated misinformation and much more.

Against guideline recommendations, preschoolers were often prescribed stimulants without even having the chance to try family behavioral therapy.

From Medscape: "The title of a recent article in The New York Times asks, “Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?” How would...

From The New York Times: "From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat A.D.H.D. increased in the United States...

In appointments that last five to seven minutes, all doctors do is push drugs—psychiatric drugs, ADHD meds, everything.

From The Guardian. "I have been a doctor for more than 30 years and a neurologist for 25 of those. I have recently grown particularly...

In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects, interviews Gretchen LeFever Watson, PhD. Gretchen...

Danish TV issues a correction after learning that this purported study doesn't exist.

In one analysis, those on a high dose of prescription amphetamines were more than 13 times more likely to develop psychosis/mania.

Harms are “largely overlooked by psychiatry despite widespread usage,” according to the researchers.

A comprehensive review indicates that children exposed to antipsychotics in the womb face an increased risk of ADHD and developmental delays.

Ask anyone who’s ever taught kids, and they’ll tell you a story about one student who sticks in their memory.

We all want to help our kids or our students, and sometimes finding the right key to unlock a child’s gifts is a matter of time, patience, trial, and error.

Leading ADHD researchers outline four mistakes that turned ADHD from a description of behavior into a medical disease.

Adults receiving ADHD medications and therapy frequently experience adverse events that interfere with employment and daily life.

When comparing kids with the same symptoms who were either diagnosed with ADHD or not, those who received the diagnosis had worse outcomes.