Background Family mindfulness‐based intervention (MBI) for child attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) targets child self‐control, parenting and parental mental health, but its effectiveness is still unclear. Methods MindChamp is a pre‐registered randomised controlled trial comparing an 8‐week family MBI (called ‘MYmind’) in addition to care‐as‐usual (CAU) (n = 55) with CAU‐only (n =...
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) are an increasingly popular way of attempting to improve the behavioural, cognitive and mental health outcomes of children and adolescents, though there is a suggestion that enthusiasm has moved ahead of the evidence base. Most evaluations of MBIs are either uncontrolled or nonrandomized trials. This meta-analysis aims to establish the efficacy...
The engagement of the brain’s default mode network (DMN) may be compromised in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and one mechanism by which medication has its beneficial effects may be through modulation of this network. Liddle and colleagues in the current issue of the Journal (Liddle et al. , 2011) now show that motivation can modulate the effects of methylphenidate in ADHD via...
Previous research has reported a link between imaginary companions (ICs) in middle childhood and the perception of verbal material in ambiguous auditory stimuli. These findings have been interpreted in terms of commonalities in the cognitive processes underlying children's engagement with ICs and adults' reporting of imaginary verbal experiences such as auditory verbal hallucinations. The aim...