Organisers of a two-day conference on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) said they hoped it would be "the start of real change". Charities and experts spoke at the event organised by ADHD ...

In the early 1990s, while working at the Maudsley Hospital in London, clinical and forensic psychologist Susan Young began to notice a troubling trend. Young people diagnosed with conditions such as ...

It’s thought more than 80% of people with ADHD (short for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) in the UK remain undiagnosed. Millions of people in the UK have the disorder, including a host of ...

There are now 2.6 million people in the UK with ADHD – and diagnoses are on the rise. Looking at 18 years of anonymised NHS patient records, researchers at University College London noted a 20-fold ...

ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions have increased significantly in the UK over the past 2 decades, except in children under 5 years of age, according to a study in BJPsych Open. Researchers from ...

BBC’s Panorama has “exposed” the private health clinics awarding ADHD diagnoses in the UK without due process. However, the answer to this problem is not to doubt the veracity of those coming forward ...

As you might have heard, we're in the grip of an ADHD medication shortage, with over 200,00 people in the UK understood to be impacted. A national patient safety alert from the Department of Health ...

We’ve recently written at HuffPost UK about how to spot the signs of autism in adult women and young girls. Autism diagnoses in the UK have risen; alongside that, more and more adults have received ...

Though more and more adults in the UK are getting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses, ADHD UK says that millions may still be undiagnosed. That can cause issues – partly because ...

Some might roll their eyes about yet another trending health label attached to a condition that is slippery to define. Yet new research suggests that more cases of AuDHD – a crossover of autism ...