Our last episode for a while... Max talks to Dr Blandine French, who not only found a problem (lack of knowledge in UK doctors about ADHD), she got up and did something about it!

She's remarkable, and you can find out all about her at https://ndlab.org.uk/

Bye for now!

Episode 32 with Blandine French

Max is joined by a brilliant double-act, Eve and Helena, who have explored the experience of late-diagnosed women, both from the inside and outside!

The paper is here. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04782-y]The additional data is here.  [https://osf.io/wrv46/?view_only=7112f2a8ff614b6aaa6a177654417ea5]

The episode that Eve liked was with Callie Ginapp, and is here [https://zencastr.com/z/VGELTz0p]

On Bluesky...

Eve can be found at ‪@chimpanzeve.bsky.social 

Helena is ‪@hkobayashiwood.bsky.social‬

Max is also on there somewhere...

Episode 31 Late Diagnosis of women with Eve Holden and Helena Kobayashi-Wood

Max and Tess are joined by Catherine Fava, Clinical Psychologist at Buckinghamshire CAMHS, to talk about her upcoming book about trauma and ADHD. 

How does trauma manifest?

How can it look like ADHD?

Should we be flipping the way we approach assessment and treatment in these children?

Tess tries to open the can of worms which is the whole 'what is ADHD?' question- we have covered that before: https://zencastr.com/z/Mc2qvzd5

Enjoy!

Episode 30 with Catherine Fava

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

Robin's new book, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, [https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robin-ince/normally-weird-and-weirdly-normal/9781035036929] is out today!!





Episode 29 with Robin Ince

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/  [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36007816/]

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

Episode 28: Cognitive disengagement with Stephen Becker

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!

Episode 27 with Isabella Barclay

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!

Episode 26: The trouble with positive emotions, with Julia McQuade

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/



Episode 25: The positives of ADHD with Dr Tom Nicholson

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!

Episode 24: The quest for diagnosis with Tom Nicholson

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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Episode 23: Q&A part 3: Medications

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