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 ...

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

Adults with ADHD may experience more bursts of sleep-like brain activity even while awake, causing brief lapses in attention. These micro “rest moments” in the brain could help explain why tasks ...

Researchers have identified a surprising brain pattern that may help explain why people with ADHD often struggle to stay focused. Even while awake, their brains can slip into brief episodes of ...

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

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

May 7, 2008 (Washington, DC) — A large neuroimaging study found that in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), brain development follows a normal trajectory, but maturation of the prefrontal ...

The brains of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can briefly enter a sleep-like state, even during ...

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 ...

Adults with ADHD may experience brief “sleep-like” brain activity even while awake, reveals a new study. As per the study, these short episodes can disrupt focus, slow reactions, and increase mistakes ...

In 2004 I published a book on Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder, called The ADD Answer, and brought on the wrath of a lot of traditional pill-selling companies and associations by merely ...