Delighted to welcome Robin Ince, legendary comedian and lovely man, to the pod.

Robin's new book, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, is out today!!

Max is joined by Stephen Becker, Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati, about the fascinating Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome, a condition that is both in some ways the opposite of ADHD, but also commonly co-exists.

If you want to know more, Stephen has made a lot of the work on this open access- here for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36007816/

Also, we discover what NFL team Tess supports....

Max is joined by Isabella Barclay to talk about what factors lead to children getting an earlier vs later diagnosis- or even a diagnosis at all.

Isabella is a passionate advocate for ADHD, and needs to be listened to!

Max is joined by Julia McQuade from Amhurst College, USA.

Julia has published this paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-024-01237-2

She studied the regulation of positive emotion in adolescents with ADHD, and found that control of these emotions predicted social success.

Max unpicks the implications of this and tries to to get too depressed about it!

Is ADHD a superpower? Is that a helpful way of talking about it. Our guest, once again Dr Tom Nicholson, has done actual research on the positives of ADHD, as experienced by ADHD people ourselves!

Catch up with Tom on social media or at https://www.drtomnicholson.com/

What is it like to battle the adversities of the diagnostic system? How does getting, or not getting, a diagnosis change the way parents see their children and themselves?

Tom Nicholson is an amazing force of nature in the ADHD world, and has done a whole PhD on this!

He has summarised it in this paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.13817 and joins Max to discuss it. There is also a Tess cameo!

More Tom next week!

Max and Tess answer questions from our lovely facebook group about medication!

We hope this is a helpful episode- please let us know!

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We are joined by the excellent Dr Alessio from Southampton Uni. We all give treatments because we think they will help people- but do ADHD meds fit the bill?

Let's find out!

Here is the paper: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Effects of Pharmacological Treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder on Quality of Life - PubMed

Alessio's details can be found here: Doctor Alessio Bellato | University of Southampton