Motivation, Inhibition And Development In ADHD (MIDAS) Study

Can rewarding children for positive performance produce similar effects in the brain as stimulant medication used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?

MIDAS  was a three-year project, funded with more than half a million pounds from the Wellcome Trust. The study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and recordings of the brain's electrical activity (EEG) to study brain functioning in both typically developing children and children taking medication for ADHD.

It also studied a number of genes that have been linked to ADHD to discover the extent to which they inflluence brain development and functioning.