{
  "id": 14057562,
  "title": "Is ADHD on the rise in children and adults in the U.K. and Europe?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/is-adhd-on-the-rise-in-children-and-adults-in-the-u-k-and-europe",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-12T22:00:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-adhd-children-adults-uk-europe.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "ADHD seems to be in the news everywhere, but is this due to a rise in cases or to changing awareness and diagnosis? Pulling together the evidence for a presentation to Europe's main clinical neuroscience conference, Professor Anita Thapar said, \"The rise in cases of ADHD across Europe appears mainly due to a change in awareness and diagnosis. Indeed, there is growing evidence that ADHD is still…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}