Exercise interventions, such as cognitively engaging exercise programs, significantly improve sustained attention in children and adolescents with ADHD.

Sustained attention is a crucial executive function skill, and it is the first topic we will explore in this series on ADHD and executive function skills. Executive function skills are brain-based ...

Mild hydration commonly occurs throughout the day as people tend to their daily activities. A new study indicates that even mild levels of dehydration can impair sustained attention- but not other ...

Lower attention ability in adolescence can predict cigarette and cannabis use in young adulthood, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin. Sustained attention, the ability to maintain ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration ...