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Topic: ADHD

What is ADHD diagnosis actually based on? ‘Functional impairment’ is the keyword

Some popular social media channels provide online 'tests' for ADHD and are sponsored by private clinics. This has raised concern about potential overdiagnosis.

Yoga won’t cure my ADHD, nor will hiding it. Ableism is just like patriarchy or racism

ADHD and autism are not illnesses to be cured or concealed. So what if it is our identity? Do we not have the right to demand humane treatment and live without unfair hassles?

Gut microbe could help identify risk factors of autism, ADHD in infants

Gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea are common in children with autism and ADHD, with 30 per cent to 70 per cent of autism patients also diagnosed with functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Neurodivergent staff run the show at this new Delhi HC café. It’s fast becoming lawyers’ favourite haunt

'We can manage the work by ourselves,' says manager Arunima Bhaduri, who herself has been diagnosed with dyspraxia & works alongside several other neurodivergent persons at Sagar Express.

Good mental health leads to improved longevity & influences healthy ageing, finds Nature study

Study was conducted by team of researchers in China, who analysed 8 datasets of people of European descent & studied 5 traits, including life satisfaction & neuroticism, among others.

New Year’s light, music and parties don’t bring me cheer. My ADHD brain is wired differently

Before my diagnosis, holidays meant saying yes to plans and then making up a thousand excuses to not go. My favourite one was 'my mother said no'.

Japan medical school wanted fewer women as doctors, and Israel’s sea wall around Gaza

Iran holds meeting with North Korea after US reimposes sanctions, and the Chinese family may soon get bigger.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.