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

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 ...

It could help to explain differences in sustained attention.

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.

Researchers report distinct brain activity patterns between adults with ADHD and neurotypical peers during inhibitory control tasks.

* ADHD traits are linked to poor sleep, depression, and lower quality of life * Insomnia and circadian misalignment worsen mental health in ADHD * Treating sleep ...

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 ...

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

I’ve been interested for a long time in the relationship between ADHD and sleep; particularly in the risk of misdiagnosis of ADHD for what may be sleep problems. In both adults and children with ADHD, ...

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 ...

Sleep difficulties both stem from and magnify symptoms of ADHD. Although primary sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, may co-exist with ADHD (or, at times, be mistaken for ADHD), many ...

Understood reports ADHD meds may raise heart risks; lifestyle factors like sleep issues and weight gain also affect heart ...