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Masking or camouflaging is where people conceal certain traits and replace them with neurotypical ones to avoid being recognised as visibly neurodiverse.
Getting a good night’s sleep is essential for the whole family. Here are some tips to try if your child struggles with poor sleep.
Better screening when young people enter the youth justice system would help identify those who are neurodivergent.
In her new memoir A Kind of Magic, Anna Spargo-Ryan writes of her fragile mental health with humour and courage.
Anxiety is the most common mental health issue facing children and adolescents. But research shows that early screening – including in school settings – can identify children who are at risk.
The risk of experiencing harm online is real, especially for children – but decades of research don’t support the alarmist tropes used in these conversations.
You can go to a psychologist for ADHD coaching or to an ‘ADHD coach’. Whichever option you choose, this should be just one aspect of your care.
Prescriptions for ADHD medications have doubled in the last decade in Australia. Medication is the best treatment for ADHD, however non-medicated treatments are also helpful.
In determining eligibility, the NDIS should focus on who an individual is – their strengths, challenges and functional capacity – rather than what diagnosis they may have.
If you think you have ADHD, getting a diagnosis can be a long, frustrating and often expensive process. But it can give you access to treatments and change how you see yourself.
We surveyed more than 100 Australian parents of children with ADHD about lockdown learning to see what worked and what did not.
This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode published on May 12 2022.
Noradrenergic drugs are already used to treat a variety of conditions, including ADHD and depression.
ADHD diagnoses are on the rise, a trend that might in part be driven by overdiagnosis. A new study finds that white children are especially likely to be overdiagnosed and overtreated for ADHD.
Kindergartners who are relatively younger than their classroom peers are at risk for doing less well in school. A clinical psychologist explains how to reduce those problems.
In the first study of its kind, researchers found medication alone has no detectable impact on how much children with ADHD learn in the classroom.
Binge eating or hyperfixating on certain foods may be common in people with ADHD.
The claims made by the creators of the app – which highlights parts of words to supposedly enhance users’ reading abilities – are dubious.
Up to 20% of US children have an anxiety disorder, and many suffer in silence.
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Senior Lecturer, Brain Mind Centre Nepean, University of Sydney
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Financial Markets Foundation Chair of Developmental Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Psychologist and Research Associate in the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University
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Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, Director of Research, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Bond University
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Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, Florida International University
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Professor of Public Policy and Leadership, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Health History, University of Strathclyde
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Principal Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Richmond
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Director, Krongold Clinic (Research), Monash University
