Adjusting to Change – Episode 2 ‘ADHD, A Young Person’s Guide’

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. This episode focuses on adjusting to change with ADHD, and Blandine is joined by Anita Salimi, a biomedical science student at the University of Warwick and a lived experience perspective, and Dr. Anna Price, a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health.

We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

27 September 2022

Getting the Right Support – Episode 1 ‘ADHD, A Young Person’s Guide’

Hosted by Dr. Blandine French, this podcast series focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and is designed to help young people and their families. This episode focuses on giving yourself the right support and Blandine is joined by Ruth Pearse, from Parenting Special Children, and Chris, a university student with lived experience of ADHD.

We are delighted to produce this podcast series in partnership with Clinical Partners, the UK’s largest private mental health partnership.

20 September 2022

Preschool development, temperament and genetic liability as early markers of childhood ADHD: A cohort study

Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “The present study sets out to identify early markers and developmental characteristics during the first 30 months of life that are associated with ADHD 6 years later”. Esther Tobarra-Sanchez (pic) et al.,

2 September 2022

How interactions between ADHD and schools affect educational achievement: a family-based genetically sensitive study

Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We linked data on ADHD symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity and parent–child ADHD polygenic scores (PGS) from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) to achievement in standardised tests and school identifiers. We estimated interactions of schools with individual differences between students in inattention, hyperactivity, and ADHD-PGS using multilevel models with random slopes for ADHD effects on achievement over schools”. Rosa Cheesman (pic), et al.

4 July 2022

CAMHS around the Campfire journal club – ADHD deficit in school performance across sex and parental education

FREE SESSION. For this session we are pleased to welcome Hans Fredrik Sunde, from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, to discuss his JCPP Advances paper ‘The ADHD deficit in school performance across sex and parental education: A prospective sibling-comparison register study of 344,152 Norwegian adolescents’.

Event type

CAMHS around the Campfire

Location

LIVE STREAM

ADHD, Comorbidity, and Longitudinal Research

In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Aja Murray, winner of ACAMH’s Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award 2021, about her research into developmental aspects of mental health phenotypes and their comorbidity, with a particular interest in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

4 April 2022

ADHD Masterclass; The evolving concept, existing challenges, and interventions

Bookings are now paused, please email events@acamh.org if you want to attend this session. A must for clinicians and researchers. A new lecture from Professor Edmund Songua-Barke which includes an exploration of the neurodiversity movement for ADHD, plus Professor Samuele Cortese’s talk includes discussions on pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for ADHD. Limited numbers, this will sell-out so book now.

Event type

2 day training

Location

Online

Cord blood metabolites linked with an ADHD diagnosis in childhood

Researchers in the USA have analysed whether the levels of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) detectable in maternal plasma and newborn cord blood are associated with the development of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later in childhood.

16 March 2021

ADHD and risk for subsequent adverse childhood experiences: understanding the cycle of adversity

Video abstract by Dr. Claudia Lugo‐Candelas ‘ADHD and risk for subsequent adverse childhood experiences: understanding the cycle of adversity’.

5 March 2021

How effective is medication for ADHD symptoms in children with ASD?

Clinically significant attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are common and impairing in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).1 Moreover, ADHD is the most common co-occurring mental health diagnosis driving increased rates of medication use in children with ASD.

14 December 2020