Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any moment, the brain is flooded with information, and staying focused depends ...

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ADHD stimulants appear to work less by sharpening focus and more by waking up the brain. Brain scans revealed that these ...

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