Practicing "mindfulness" may seem like an abstract or unfamiliar concept, but that's because it is a word used to encapsulate what actually represents a way of living life. We spend a lot of our time lost in distraction, doing one thing while thinking of another, and acting reflexively or out...

Statistician Nate Silver predicted the last two presidential elections through the following logic: Multiple polls were calling the election a toss-up because President Obama's slight lead fell within the margin of error. In other words, it was fairly likely by any individual measure that his lead was no better than...

"ADHD Medications Have Potential Benefits -- But Can Be Misused"

"I Have My Child Back -- A Story of Successful ADHD Treatment"

"Refining Clinical ADHD Diagnosis -- Clarifying an Imperfect Science"

The headline "ADHD Treatments Don't Reduce Symptoms in Most Children" (or similar ones posted on various sites...

Why do I have to repeat myself, I told you ten times already.

How was school today? And don't say 'nothing much,' something must have happened.

Managing ADHD is never about addressing attention or impulsivity alone. ADHD represents...

At five o'clock in the morning, a bleary-eyed crowd awaits our Delta flight, immersed in the sounds of a news report on the week-old Newtown tragedy. From 84 to 44 to 4 years old, each person hears the same devastating story blaring from a television, sees the same horrendous images...

The holiday season can be a time of great, uncomplicated joy -- honestly it can. It doesn't have to be an intense, draining, consumer-driven mess. We cram into four weeks a stew of stress-raising ingredients for our families, letting it simmer until New Year's Day. But with a little mindfulness...

"My mother had always told her kids: If you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see."

- From the novel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)

These...

On your mark, get set, go. Off they race, the children of America, into our collective future. The end point of this particular race is a healthy, happy and productive adulthood. So here's the question: Are the odds equal that anyone who puts in the effort will reach that finish...

A child with an autistic spectrum disorder does not intuitively understand the social world. Severely affected kids may have little apparent interest in people around them. Someone with mild impairment may be quite motivated socially, but lack the skills to initiate or maintain social exchange or play. Regardless of whether...

A 2011 study from the journal Pediatrics found that near 60 percent of children with ADHD have an associated writing disability. Beyond the effects of distractibility, rushing through assignments, impulsivity and all the rest of ADHD, these children have a neurologically-based deficit around writing. The ability to effectively...

"I probably have a little bit of ADHD myself -- where do you think my kid got it from?"

It's a frequent comment I hear in conversation, once people know what I do for a living. It also comes up in my medical practice several times a month. Grownups feel...

According to professional organizer Judith Kolberg, anything we plan in life has three parts, one of which we often forget. First, we need to prepare (A). Second, we need to act (B). And then third, we need to complete what we started (C). Often on a busy day...

One truth of family life is that it is inherently uncertain. We feel everything is under control one moment and then things suddenly change around us. We make plans that don't work out exactly as we pictured. We imagine our future one way, and then life takes a different path....

When a child has a language delay, people tend to accept this fact at face value: Joseph is 6 but speaks like a 3-year-old. While understandably upsetting to many parents, no one expects Joseph to speak differently before he is able. There's a scramble to start services and a patient...

Target Corp., the mega discount shopping chain, has successfully been taking advantage of some basic neuroscience in capturing business, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Its marketing wizards have discovered that shopping habits typically change only during periods of major life upheaval. For Target,...