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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder doesn't just "go away" in adulthood.

The new proposal — part of the psychiatric association’s effort of many years to update its influential diagnostic manual — is intended to clarify these diagnoses and better integrate them into clinical practice, to extend and improve treatment. But the effort has run into so much opposition that it will probably be relegated to the back of the manual, if it’s allowed in at all.

Psychotherapy’s struggle to sell itself.

These days, as never before, therapists are struggling with concerns about the accessibility made possible by technology.

Apps that can assess data like blood glucose levels, diet and drug regimen — and can be reimbursed by insurance — will soon be prescribed by doctors to help treat patients.

What if we’re trying too hard to think positive and might do better to reconsider our relationship to “negative” emotions and situations?

Shawn Colvin, who is releasing a memoir and a new album, had to convince herself that the world needed another autobiography about alcohol and depression.

Stories stimulate the brain. Metaphors like “He had leathery hands” rouse the sensory cortex.

“For eight years, I have skipped lunch to get to the safety of the library, bury myself in books, and count the days till graduation,” wrote Alyssa Ahrens, 17, a high school senior in Indiana. “As of today, it is 64.”

“I’ve always been drawn to controversy, and what I was hearing made sense,” said Dr. Spitzer, in an interview at his Princeton home last week. “And I began to think, well, if it is a mental disorder, then what makes it one?”

Soccer players have been shown to have superior executive functions, the brain processes responsible for planning and abstract thinking. http://nyti.ms/HYcy1g

Therapy should focus on goals and outcomes, and people should be able to graduate from it.

A mouse that runs all the time is smarter than one that doesn’t. Probably true for people, too.