New Foundation-funded research about ADHD treatment includes:
The largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted is helping researchers understand why some teenagers start smoking or experimenting with drugs and others don’t. NARSAD grantee Mark Bellgrove, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Psychology at ...
In 1999, results from the Multimodal Treatment for ADHD (MTA) study - the most comprehensive study of treatment strategies for ADHD ever undertaken - were published explaining that for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), medication is a more successful treatment option than non-medication treatments such as behavioral therapy and community care....
Scientific Council Member, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D. of Columbia University Medical Center presents an overview of the current state of mental healthcare, offering specific recommendations on how to continue to improve it. He notes that “the care for persons with mental illness is better now than ever before in human history,...
With holiday cards and many other tangible products, NARSAD Artworks, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, collects and sells beautiful, museum-quality artwork created by talented artists who share the common bond of mental illness. Producing artwork offers these artists an important means of expression,...
Shahrdad Lotfipour, Ph.D., began studying the pharmacology of drugs of abuse as part of a United States Fulbright Fellowship. This led him to graduate studies at the University of California where he studied the consequences of developmental exposure to nicotine and the role of other compounds in tobacco smoke that interact with nicotine to mediate addiction.
