ADHD Clinical Trials
100 recruiting trials for ADHD. Eligibility criteria explained in plain English.
Recruiting Trials
Clinical trial data sourced from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, maintained by the National Library of Medicine. Always consult your doctor before considering any clinical trial.
Behavioural Development, Long-term Outcomes and Opportunities to Optimize Youth Mental Health Trajectories
Behavioural Development, Long-term Outcomes and Opportunities to Optimize Youth Mental Health (BLOOM) is a project that aims to overcome age and diagnostic boundaries to generate...
Ultra-processed Food Consumption and Behavioral Disorder and Cognitive Function
The goal of this interventional study is to determine whether reducing ultra-processed food consumption in children and adolescents can improve cognitive function. The main...
Biomarker Research in Inherited Movement Disorders
Inherited movement disorders are rare conditions, whose cumulative prevalence are in the order of 5-10/100,000 inhabitants, in most cases progressive and can lead to a significant...
Acute Effects of Stimulant Medication in College Students With ADHD
The investigators will examine the acute effects of stimulant medication on executive functioning. The rationale for the proposed study is to examine the efficacy of stimulants...
Target ADHD Executive Working Memory Replication Study
The proposed study will replicate target engagement as assessed in the first phase while also determining if it correlates with clinically meaningful improvements in ADHD...
Digital Single Session Intervention for Youth Mental Health
The aim of this study is to test the effectiveness of a single-session, digital intervention teaching the principle of practicing the opposite, when administered to youths on the...
Clinical Trial to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of Two Dexamfetamine Sulfate Formulations in Adults With ADHD and...
The indication of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to be examined often occurs with other psychiatric disorders, and the majority of adults with ADHD have at least...
Sleep Disorders in Specific Learning Disabilities
Specific learning disorders, or SLD, are cognitive and behavioral conditions that emerge during childhood and involve significant difficulties in acquiring and performing specific...
Testing a Measurement Feedback App to Improve Data Quality, Supervision & Outcomes in Behavioral Health
The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether a smartphone-based data collection and feedback application ("Footsteps") improves the quality of behavioral data collected by...
Advancing Identification of Circadian Delay in ADHD Youth: Associations With Clinical Heterogeneity and Cognition
The purpose of this study is to better understand sleep and circadian functioning in children with ADHD using home-based measures, parent report, and a lab based melatonin...
Recovery in Telling Life Stories
This project tests the Recovery In Telling Life Stories (RETELL) intervention, aimed at supporting personal recovery in people with severe mental illness (SMI). While many of...
Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for Children With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
This is an open-label trial of trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS) for children aged 8-12 years with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) putatively due to prenatal...
Metacognitive Intervention in Children and Adolescents With ADHD - MiA Study
The aim of the MiA-Study is to address the current lack of effective treatment options to reduce cognitive and physical long-term problems in children and adolescents with...
Fibromyalgia Disease Burden in Mothers of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
In this study, the investigators aimed to evaluate the impact of having a child diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on parental disease burden in...
Five Digits Test - Validation of a Neuropsychological Test of Inhibition for Patients With Neuropsychiatric Conditions
Neuropsychiatric conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism are characterized by specific deficits in cognitive functions. Thus,...
Stimulant vs. Non-stimulant Treatments and Reward Processing in Drug-naive Youth at SUD Risk
The study team will examine the effects of FDA approved stimulant and non-stimulant medications for ADHD, among youth with ADHD and with and without Oppositional Defiant Disorder...
Executive Function Training for Children and Adolescents
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate how different approaches to executive function (like adding game-like features, varying the number of tasks, and providing coaching)...
SKIP for PA Study: Team and Leadership Level Implementation Support for Collaborative Care
In a prior application (MH064372), the investigators' treatment research program (Services for Kids In Primary-care, SKIP) developed and tested a chronic care model-based...
AWARE: Management of ADHD in Autism Spectrum Disorder
This study is a pragmatic clinical trial examining the comparative effectiveness of two stimulant medications (methylphenidate and amphetamine) in the treatment of ADHD in...
Regulating Emotions Like An eXpert Among Adolescents With ADHD
This study consists of a randomized controlled trial assessing the acceptability, feasibility, and efficacy of the RELAX (Regulating Emotions Like An eXpert) Intervention....
Association Between Motor Skills and Sensory Profiles in Children With Typical and Atypical Development Aged 4 to 11...
Background and Justification Childhood developmental disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Developmental...
Effects of an Aerobic Exercise Intervention on Core Symptoms, Executive Functioning, and Quality of Life in Children...
Selecting a maternal and child healthcare hospital in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, 50 cases of ADHD children as the study subjects, according to the inclusion and exclusion...
ADOLESCENTS IMAGING USING fMRI: Feasibility Study
Impaired social cognition and cognitive control associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) remain less explored. Recent Franco-Canadian study, has shown the feasibility...
Efficacy of Reboxetine and Methylphenidate Treatment on Attentional, Sensory and Emotional Dysregulation in Adults With...
Up-to-date, no studies have examined the attentional, sensory and emotional processing (difficulties) among patients diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In...
Feasibility and Efficacy of Attentional-Control Training in Sickle Cell Disease
Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) exhibit significantly reduced cognitive functioning (often difficulties with attention) compared to peers and siblings without SCD....
A Parent-child Yoga Intervention for Reducing Attention Deficits in Children with Congenital Heart Disease: a...
The proposed study aims to determine the feasibility of the procedures for a future full randomized controlled trial (RCT), which will test the efficacy of a parent-child yoga...
A Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of EB-1020 in Pediatric Patients With ADHD
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and examine the safety of two doses of EB-1020 QD XR capsule administered once daily orally in pediatric ADHD patients.
Big Feelings: A Study on Children's Emotions in Therapy
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about how psychotherapy works for children and adolescents aged 8 - 15 with anxiety, depression, trauma, or disruptive behaviour. The...
Dual Executive Function Training Package
Executive function (EF) refers to the cognitive processes that enable goal-directed regulation of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Two interrelated domains are commonly...
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder / Substance Use Disorder Comorbidity in Integrated Treatment
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) is a highly common comorbid condition associated with serious medical and psychosocial...
Sustained Endogenous Attention Deficits in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Subjects with ADHD may exhibit deficits in sustained internal attention. The "Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping" test was recently developed and experimentally used in international...
Attention Modulation of Local and Global Inhibition Mechanisms
Human behavior is both flexible and adapted to the environmental context through inhibition capabilities; the investigator control the subject's behavior by repressing...
Motor Attention Training for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The investigators will perform a feasibility/pilot trial of two non-pharmacological interventions for ADHD in college students.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
The ADA cohort aims for the systematic and standardized collection of sociodemographic, clinical and neuropsychological data, during 2 visits (inclusion and 12 months), from...
Dual-target iTBS for Youth With ADHD
This study will employ accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation (aiTBS) targeting two transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) sites: the right inferior frontal gyrus and...
Project PEAK: Early Intervention for ADHD
Parent education is an effective and relatively cost efficient approach for reducing child behavior problems. Research, however, suggests that the effectiveness of parent...
Predictors of Improvements in Irritability and Aggression in Children With ADHD Treated With CNS Stimulants
Impulsive Aggression and chronic irritability (IACI) often occur together and are one of the most common reasons children present for behavioral health (BH) care. ADHD frequently...
Pai.ACT Programme for Parents of Children With Special Healthcare Needs - Phase I
This study aims to determine the feasibility, acceptability and potential efficacy of an individual, video-conferencing based Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) on...
Intervention With Weighted Blankets for Children With ADHD and Sleep Problems: Implementation and Effectiveness
The aim is to study a sleep intervention with weighted blankets in children with ADHD and sleep problems regarding 1) short- and long-term effects on sleep and health-related...
Lisdexamphetamine Vs Methylphenidate for Pediatric Patients with ADHD and Type 1 Diabetes
This clinical trial aims to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of an intervention involving parental training in behaviour management and medication in children with both Type...
FAB Programme for Parents of Children With NDD
The study aims to examine the effectiveness of a psychotherapy approach called Facilitator-guided Acceptance and Commitment Bibliotherapy (FAB) in improving the psychological...
Sertraline vs. Placebo in the Treatment of Anxiety in Children and AdoLescents With NeurodevelopMental Disorders
There are currently no approved medications for the treatment of anxiety in children and youth with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), both common and rare. Sertraline, a...
Neuromodulation and Attention Deficits in MDD
Multimodal study (Behavior, TMS, EEG) combining a sham-controlled intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) intervention with an additional-singleton task and EEG to evaluate...
NeuroTrainer Cognitive Training For Academic Focus
This clinical trial aims to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of NeuroTrainer cognitive training in improving attentional and executive control functions in students with and...
Mindfulness Intervention for College Students With ADHD
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that commonly persists into adulthood and is associated with significant life impairments. The...
Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of EB-1020 in Adult ADHD Patients
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and examine the safety of two doses of EB-1020 QD XR capsule administered once daily orally in adult ADHD patients.
Focus Groups in Ethnically and Racially Diverse Families
Focus groups to identify treatment needs and barriers to participation in the planned multinutrient study among racially and ethnically diverse (Black and Hispanic) communities.
MEthylphenidate in ADHD - Addiction(s) Comorbidity: Value of Adding a Cognitive Remediation Program to Improve Short-...
MEthylphenidate in ADHD - Addiction(s) comorbidity: benefit of adding a cognitive remediation program to improve short- and medium-term therapeutic response
Accelerated iTBS Targeting of Working Memory Versus Inhibitory Control in Adolescent ADHD
The objective of this project is to examine the differential therapeutic effect of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS; a type of repetitive transcranial magnetic...
R61/33 - VR Study Phase 4
The goal of this larger parallel group randomized trial is to test the impact of a virtual reality program for improving the ability of emerging adults (age 18-25) with attention...
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Frequently Asked Questions
There are currently 100 clinical trials for ADHD, with 100 actively recruiting participants. These include trials across all phases from early-stage Phase 1 to late-stage Phase 3.
To join a clinical trial for ADHD, review the eligibility criteria on the trial detail pages, then talk to your doctor about whether a trial is right for you. Your doctor can help you evaluate the potential benefits and risks.
Phase 3 trials are large-scale studies that test whether a treatment is effective and monitor side effects. There are 1 Phase 3 trials for ADHD, representing treatments closest to potential FDA approval.
Clinical trials follow strict safety protocols overseen by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and the FDA. Participants are monitored closely and can withdraw at any time. Always discuss risks and benefits with your healthcare provider before enrolling.
Trial data sourced from the ClinicalTrials.gov API. This site does not provide medical advice, always talk to your doctor about clinical trial participation.
The this entity record above pulls directly from the NIH ClinicalTrials.gov registry. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. clinical trials and research registries distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to the NIH ClinicalTrials.gov registry; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within active and historical clinical trials with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.