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ADHD symptoms improve when life gets busier, according to study

Ellsworth Toohey
Nov 22, 2024
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Researchers who tracked 483 people with ADHD for 16 years discovered that ADHD symptoms actually improved when life got busier.

"We expected the relationship between environmental demands and ADHD symptoms to be the opposite of what we found," said Margaret H. Sibley, a clinical psychologist and professor at…

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