MIT’s AI and Education Report — Key Points and Recommendations/Plus a Discussion on the AI/SI Race at The Bottom.
MIT’s AI and Education Report — Key Points and Recommendations/Plus a Discussion on the AI/SI Race at The Bottom.
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September’s most-read articles at https://www.addrc.org
September’s most-read articles at https://www.addrc.org
ADHD and Type 2 Diabetes in Young People: What the New Study Does and Doesn’t Show
A conference analysis of 4.2 million records found ADHD far more common among people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before age 20. Here is which way the arrow points, what earlier research shows, and what parents, adults, and students can do now.
The Decade Ahead Favors Your Teenager: What the Research Says About ADHD After High School
Parents of teenagers with ADHD tend to project adult outcomes from the high school years, the period least representative of life with ADHD. This article argues from the evidence that the decade ahead is more favorable: brain maturation in ADHD follows the typical sequence on a delayed timetable, with the greatest lag in prefrontal regions (Shaw et al., 2007); the long-term course is usually fluctuating rather than fixed, with only about one in ten showing unbroken persistence (Sibley et al., 2022); young adults report that symptoms shift with environment, which adulthood lets them choose (Lasky et al., 2016); and serious near-term risks such as vehicle crashes are substantially lower during treatment (Chang et al., 2017). It closes with practical steps: protect the downside during the delay, let teens test environments early, loosen the age-eighteen deadline, keep the relationship intact, and help teens identify where they are at their best.
ADHD and Bipolar Disorder: Stabilize the Mood First, Then Treat the ADHD (For HCPs Only)
This article has not been medically reviewed. It is written for qualified healthcare professionals as a starting point for further research and should not be acted on before you consult the primary sources and apply your own clinical judgment.
When Your Child Runs the House: Taking Back the Parent’s Chair, Ages 10 to 17
Between ages 10 and 17, a child with ADHD can come to run the household while the parent defers – a controlling-punitive form of role reversal distinct from the child who takes on caregiving. The pattern grows from a coercion loop in which escalation is rewarded and parental powerlessness compounds. The article explains how to tell which reversal a family has and sets out a stepwise plan to restore parental authority: reclaim one decision, decide in advance, announce rather than negotiate, hold through pushback, use small immediate consequences, return age-appropriate choices to the child, protect warmth, and seek parent training when needed.
So You Have Just Been Diagnosed with ADHD. What Now?
Harold Robert MeyerThe ADD Resource Center · www.addrc.org · Reviewed: Sept. 28, 2026 · Published: September 29, 2026 Your first 30 days, in order: what to do this week, what to hold off on, and what to have in place by day 30. You walked out with a diagnosis, and maybe a prescription, a handout, … Read more
Same Prescription, Older Body: What Changes When You Add ADHD Medication to an Aging Regimen
A woman in her late sixties gets a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, finally explaining a lifetime of scattered focus. Her prescriber starts a low dose of a stimulant. She’s also taking a blood pressure medication, a statin, something for sleep, and an antidepressant her internist added two winters ago.
Explaining ADHD to the Ignorant: 10 Ways That Actually Land
Synopsis Explaining ADHD to the Ignorant: 10 Ways That Actually Land / September 27, 2026 / Harold Robert Meyer · https://www.addrc.org/ Most arguments about ADHD fail because they answer the wrong underlying claim. This piece separates the five most common objections – it isn’t real, it’s bad parenting, it’s laziness, everyone has a little of it, and medication is a crutch – and gives a matching, research-grounded response for each, plus guidance on recognizing when a conversation isn’t worth continuing. Topic: Advocating (secondary: Communication) Audience: Adults; Parents & Caregivers Keywords: stigma, performance disorder, heritability, personal contact, misconception
At Your Child’s ADHD Appointment, Three Complete Answers Beat Fifteen Rushed Ones
Harold Robert Meyer The ADD Resource Center · https://www.addrc.org/ Reviewed August 30, 2026 · Published September 26, 2026 How to prepare for your child’s ADHD psychiatry appointment so you leave with answers you can actually use, plus a free printable check-off list to take with you. In the psychiatrist’s waiting room, most parents are holding … Read more
What Caused Your ADHD? What the Research Actually Says — and What to Do With That
What Caused Your ADHD? What the Research Actually Says — and What to Do With That / September 16, 2026 / Harold Robert Meyer · https://www.addrc.org/
This piece addresses the self-blame and parent-blame that often follows an ADHD diagnosis by summarizing what the research identifies as causal — heritability of roughly 74 percent from twin and family studies, 27 genome-wide risk loci from a 2023 GWAS, a narrow set of modestly contributing prenatal and perinatal factors, and measurable subcortical brain-volume differences — then pivots deliberately to what the diagnosis calls for now: confirming the diagnosis, starting evidence-based treatment, and building daily structure, regardless of which mix of factors produced the condition.
Does Having a Child With ADHD Really Raise Your Risk of Divorce?
A child’s ADHD diagnosis is linked to a real, measurable rise in parental divorce risk, most concentrated in the years right after diagnosis – but well-designed studies show the mechanism is parental stress and loss of parental self-efficacy, not the diagnosis itself, and both respond to behavioral parent training and targeted couples support.