The digital revolution has become a vast, unplanned experiment—and children are its most exposed participants. As ADHD ...

Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40 percent less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University that examines how early childhood characteristics ...

Paying attention refers to the brain's ability to take all of the stimuli around us, immediately categorize and organize information as relevant or irrelevant, and focus the mind on one thing. For a ...

Because of its plodding, zigzagging, fussy, and skeptical nature, science often frustrates us, appearing unable to make up its mind. Scientific recommendations often conflict, reverse themselves, or ...

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy is associated with sleep and behavior problems consistent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study by Penn State College of ...

Smoking in adolescence contributes to attention problems that persist into adulthood, a new study of identical twins suggests. "Since our results imply that smoking causally increases attention ...

On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: Author Johann Hari shares how difficult it is for people to focus and pay attention now, how we got here and what can be done about it. He talks with host ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young children who watch more than a couple of hours of television a day are more likely to have attention problems as adolescents, researchers from New Zealand have found.

It's a common belief that exposure to television in toddlerhood causes attention-deficit problems in school-age children -- a claim that was born from the results of a 2004 study that seemed to show a ...

A major new study has found what many parents feared but science is only now confirming. It's not video games. It's social media that seems to be undermining teenagers' ability to concentrate. Over ...

Because of its plodding, zigzagging, fussy, and skeptical nature, science often frustrates us, appearing unable to make up its mind. Scientific recommendations often conflict, reverse themselves, or ...