Researchers once thought of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as an unchanging condition: either you have it or you don’t, end of story. But it’s become clear that ADHD symptoms can change across a person’s lifespan, and now research shows that symptoms can even shift over the course of a menstrual cycle.
The new findings, which were presented at the U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress but have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, provide the strongest evidence so far that ADHD symptoms can fluctuate along with hormonal shifts. {read}