It could help to explain differences in sustained attention.

Adults with combined-type ADHD show distinct patterns of sleep-like slow-wave brain activity while fully awake, and those patterns track with attention failures and cognitive dysfunction. The finding ...

People with ADHD function differently - even when it comes to sleep and relaxation: they are often hyper in the evening, find it difficult to rest and are tired in the morning. That's not good. A ...

Adults with ADHD experience more frequent "sleep-like" brain activity while awake, driving lapses in attention and task errors.

New from JNeurosci, Elaine Pinggal, from Monash University, and colleagues assessed how sleep-like brain activity in awake adults influences sustained attention during a task.

DISTRACTABILITY, forgetfulness, impulsive behaviour and bursts of endless energy – sounds like classic ADHD, right? But for some children, the cause of these symptoms may not lie in the ...

For decades, one of the greatest challenges to treating neurological disorders like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ...

Almost two-thirds of children with ADHD experience significant sleep difficulties, such as taking a long time to fall asleep, waking frequently through the night or waking very early. Researchers ...

Researchers found that adults with ADHD experience more “local sleep”—sleep-like slow brain waves occurring while ...

"Sleep adverse effects could undermine the benefits of stimulant medications in some cases. Pediatricians should carefully consider dosage amounts, standard versus extended release, and dosage ...

Researchers from the University of Southampton and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience examined data from an online sleep survey based in the Netherlands to find links between ADHD traits and ...