Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eliza Anderson, Deseret News While researching his new book on attention, author Johann Hari met with one of the world’s leading ...

What did your mind used to be like as a child? Do you remember where and when and how it would wander — to the raindrops on the window? The ants climbing ginormous blades of grass? The feeling of ...

Researchers at UCLA Health have found that a person's risk of developing psychotic-like experiences may be influenced by both childhood attention problems and their genetic makeup. The findings, ...

September 5, 2008 — In a longitudinal study, low–birth-weight children had modestly increased levels of psychiatric problems such as aggression or anxiety throughout childhood. However, those living ...

Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40 percent less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University that examines how early childhood characteristics ...

Researchers have found that a person's risk of developing psychotic-like experiences may be influenced by both childhood attention problems and their genetic makeup. Researchers at UCLA Health have ...

CHICAGO -- Very young children who watch television face an increased risk of attention deficit problems by school age, a study has found, suggesting that TV might overstimulate and permanently ...

Smoking in adolescence contributes to attention problems that persist into adulthood, a new study of identical twins suggests. "Since our results imply that smoking causally increases attention ...

Let's start with some facts: Seventy-percent of people say they have a problem paying attention. The average attention span is eight seconds. After reading this sentence, it’s likely that you’re going ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smoking during pregnancy is known to boost the risk of attention problems in children, but a study published on Wednesday suggests that teens who smoke and were also exposed to ...