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Parenting
fromScary Mommy
3 weeks ago

I Spent A Year Talking To ADHD Experts. Here's What I've Learned As A Mom.

ADHD parenting focuses on recognizing patterns and making gradual improvements rather than seeking perfection.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Late-Diagnosed Mind: ADHD and Autism in Adults

Undiagnosed ADHD and autism in adults lead to significant psychological costs, including high rates of anxiety and depression.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

A Brain-Based Parenting Shift That Can Help Kids With ADHD

ADHD challenges stem from executive function differences, not motivation or capability; children struggle with attention, memory, and follow-through rather than understanding expectations.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Untangling the connection between dopamine and ADHD

ADHD is not simply caused by low dopamine; causes are diverse and dopamine's role is nuanced and not unequivocal.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

New Study Finds That ADHD Has 9 Categories of Symptoms

ADHD symptoms encompass nine categories, with some not fully represented in diagnostic criteria, suggesting broader criteria could enhance interventions.
Parenting
fromScary Mommy
3 weeks ago

I Spent A Year Talking To ADHD Experts. Here's What I've Learned As A Mom.

ADHD parenting focuses on recognizing patterns and making gradual improvements rather than seeking perfection.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Late-Diagnosed Mind: ADHD and Autism in Adults

Undiagnosed ADHD and autism in adults lead to significant psychological costs, including high rates of anxiety and depression.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

A Brain-Based Parenting Shift That Can Help Kids With ADHD

ADHD challenges stem from executive function differences, not motivation or capability; children struggle with attention, memory, and follow-through rather than understanding expectations.
Social justice
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Extending Awareness to Every Autistic Person

Autism awareness must encompass all autistic individuals, acknowledging their unseen struggles regardless of perceived high-functioning status.
Mental health
fromIndependent
1 week ago

Asking for a friend: 'My son has just been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. My husband also got tested and has ADHD. How will all this affect our relationship?'

Navigating the challenges of neurodiversity in a family can be overwhelming, especially with multiple diagnoses affecting communication and relationships.
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

New autism group meets to counter MAHA's 'ideological agenda'

We in the autism science and advocacy community were just appalled at the way he went about selecting members. The current committee has been hijacked by a narrow ideological agenda that does not reflect either the broad autism community or the state of autism science.
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Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why a Formal ADHD Diagnosis Matters for Parents

A formal ADHD diagnosis in parents is essential for understanding family dynamics and making informed treatment decisions, not merely a label.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

When Autism and ADHD Travel Together

AuDHD—being both autistic and ADHD—affects 50-70% of autistic people and 20-65% of ADHD individuals, yet remains underdiagnosed due to diagnostic overshadowing and historical clinical restrictions.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Parents Should Know About Oppositional Defiant Disorder

When a child is labeled "oppositional," adults often assume the problem is the child. In my experience as a child psychiatrist, the truth is often much more complicated. Both families sought out these schools, believing they were giving their children the best education possible. Instead, the schools failed their children, labeling them "oppositional" and "defiant" rather than addressing the root causes of their behavior.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

3 Common Cognitive Patterns Experienced by People With ADHD

Polyvagal theory, introduced in 1994 by psychologist Stephen Porges, highlights the role of the autonomic nervous system in regulating our health and behavior. Our lived experience of engaging with the world is impacted by external environmental cues, internal physical sensations, and relational experiences (e.g., an impression of connection, safety, and trust between individuals). Neuroception is our body's unconscious surveillance system that shifts us into one of three autonomic states needed to respond to a situation: rest-and-digest (social and safe), fight-or-flight (mobilization), or shutdown/collapse (immobilization).
Psychology
Education
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How Psychologists Are Using AI in Schools

Many U.S. school psychologists are adopting AI tools professionally, reporting benefits, rising adoption rates, and expressing ethical, legal, and professional concerns.
#profound-autism
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

If Punishments Don't Work, What Does?

First, you have to facilitate through the situation, which means realigning your mindset and asking yourself what you need to do to effect change for the next time you see this behaviour. Once this mindset has been established, there is a sequence of steps we must avoid to be able to effect change. These are as follows: 1. Do not allow your reactions to be based on what your child is saying.
Parenting
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Do You Have an Attention Problem? Or Does everyone?

Attention is effortful and humans are naturally attracted to novelty; minimize distractions and schedule demanding tasks when freshest, with breaks to sustain focus.
#autism
fromBoston.com
1 month ago
Public health

As some people push to make profound autism its own diagnosis, this Ayer family is raising twins with it

fromBoston.com
1 month ago
Public health

As some people push to make profound autism its own diagnosis, this Ayer family is raising twins with it

fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Science Is Learning to Explore Ground Truth

Some clinicians have an uncanny quality. A colleague describes herself and others with this instinct as "witchy"-a capacity to know things about patients they haven't said yet, to follow a stray association to a song lyric or a half-remembered cultural reference and arrive, reliably, at something the patient urgently needed to say but couldn't reach on their own. We see with artificial intelligence these intriguing possibilities for discovery, especially as connections that human beings never would see pop out of apparently unrelated data.
Science
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why Negative Reinforcement Isn't a Bad Thing

Negative reinforcement is a valuable behavior-change tool that motivates action by removing aversive conditions rather than by punishing or withholding rewards.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

3 Green Flags of Neurodiversity-Affirming Autism Evaluations

Neurodiversity-affirming autism assessments center the individual's lived experience through respectful, collaborative evaluation and avoid stereotype-based diagnoses.
Psychology
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

Vicarious Conditioning: Definition, Examples, And How It Works In Psychology

Individuals acquire behaviors, fears, and emotional responses by observing others, forming learned associations without needing direct personal experience.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Clinical Reasoning and the Debate Over Psychiatric Diagnosis

DSM's checklist psychometric approach and assumption that symptoms are non-iatrogenic produce misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis, overmedication, and increased iatrogenic harm; clinical judgment must guide treatment.
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