The stress of adult life can make living with undiagnosed ADHD very difficult, doctors say. Jing Wei for NPR hide caption
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Have daunting to-do lists contributed to the rise in ADHD drug prescriptions? iStockphoto hide caption
Boy meets girl, sperm meets egg — how much does the age of each matter? James Steidl/Kyle Gruba/iStockphoto hide caption
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children have no more than two hours a day of "screen time." Marilyn Nieves/iStockphoto.com hide caption
Does ADHD affect eating and weight? iStockphoto.com hide caption
Ten milligram tablets of the prescription drug Adderall. The drug is used to treat ADHD and is used by some students to boost their academic performance. Jb Reed/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
If the label of ingredients on the Adderall pack says "singel entity," that's a tip-off for trouble. FDA/Flickr hide caption
Eliminating junk food from a child's diet is usually not enough to effectively treat attention deficit disorders, a paper shows. Tarah Dawdy via Flickr hide caption
Diagnosed with ADHD at age 5, Blake Taylor poses on campus at University of California, Berkeley, in 2009, when he was 19.
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