Let’s talk about ADHD!

Much of the available information on ADHD is aimed at parents and carers rather than children. The ADHD Animation Research Team at Cardiff university talk about the medium for addressing children.

13 May 2020

‘ADHD and the implications of a lack of awareness within primary care’ – In Conversation with Blandine French

In this fascinating interview Blandine French discusses her research on understanding GPs awareness of developmental disorders, such as ADHD, and what the implications are of a lack of awareness within primary care, and its impact on young people and their families.

18 March 2021

Inclusion and Advocacy for Women with ADHD: Addressing Inequities and Challenging Diagnostic Bias on International Women’s Day

March 8th, 2024 is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is “Inspire Inclusion.” Unfortunately, women who hold multiple intersecting identities that are systemically oppressed world-wide are often excluded from discussions. One example includes women who are neurodiverse, and more specifically for this post, women with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Women and non-binary folks are often excluded from appropriate diagnosis of ADHD due to bias in providers, boy/men-dominated symptoms in the DSM-5 (Barkley, 2023; Hinshaw et al., 2021), socialization to mask and internalize symptoms, and sexism and other forms of discrimination. As with most discrimination, this is even worse for women with ADHD who also hold other systemically oppressed identities. This blog will focus on how to increase equity for women with ADHD with concrete solutions for multiples systems that affect them.

8 March 2024

Moving Forward with ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

Celebrated every October, ADHD Awareness Month aims to educate the public about ADHD by disseminating information informed by evidence-based research. It provides an opportunity to correct misunderstandings, acknowledge lived experiences, and read the latest research from leading lights in the field.

This ADHD Awareness Month, we encourage you to explore the FREE learning opportunities available on our website, and to share with your networks.

2 October 2023

Categorical and dimensional approaches to the developmental relationship between ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and irritability

Video abstract from Rania Johns-Mead, on her JCPP paper ‘Categorical and dimensional approaches to the developmental relationship between ADHD and irritability’.

14 August 2023

Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross-sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), and ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)

Paper from the JCPP – ‘The current study conducted a novel longitudinal network analysis of ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms between childhood and adolescence, with the important applied prediction of social skills in adolescence’. Pevitr S. Bansal (pic) et al.

20 July 2023

A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions to ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) over time

Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We investigated whether the genetic and environmental variance underlying ADHD, and traits of ADHD, has changed over time’. Mark J. Taylor (pic) et al.

6 July 2023

Variation in sleep profiles in children with ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and associated clinical characteristics

Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We examined the profiles of sleep difficulties in children with ADHD and associated clinical factors (e.g. co-occurring mental health conditions, stimulant use and parent mental health).’ Emma Sciberras (pic) et al.

4 June 2023

Social gradient in use of health services and health-related quality of life of children with ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder): A systematic review

Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘This study aims to systematically synthesise evidence of equity and equality in health service use/costs and health-related quality of life (HRQoL)/wellbeing of children with ADHD across socioeconomic (SES) classes.’ Abraham Sevastidis et al.

25 May 2023

Editorial: It is time to modernize the concept of ADHD!

Free Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This new concept should take the discourse on ADHD to the next level: from a limited, symptom- and impairment-driven paradigm to a dynamic model that acknowledges ADHD’s heterogeneity and integrates weaknesses and strengths, focused on individual trajectories in functioning and self-management.’ Barbara Franke (pic), on behalf of the ‘Modernizing the concept of ADHD’ (MocA) Team

12 May 2023