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!

and join the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/403562932757284



Episode 23: Q&A part 3: Medications

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 [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38823477/]

Alessio's details can be found here: Doctor Alessio Bellato | University of Southampton [https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/656xkv/doctor-alessio-bellato]

Episode 22- Quality of life with Alessio Bellato

Another of our episodes which comes from Max reading a paper and going 'whoa...' this one is with the very charming Anders Rasmussen from Lund. 

His paper is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38066477/

I am aware that the audio isn't great at the moment- I broke our old microphone and am trying to sort out a new one. 

Episode 21- Is Rhythm a dancer, after all? with Anders Rasmussen

How can squiggly lines on a page reveal the secrets of attention, consciousness and ADHD?

Follow Andrew Haigh, psychologist, and his willing sidekicks Max and Tess on a mindbending journey!

Here's Andrew's paper: Rhythmic Attention and ADHD: A Narrative and Systematic Review - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38198019/]

And one about information integration and consciousness: An information integration theory of consciousness | BMC Neuroscience | Full Text [https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2202-5-42]

Episode 20- Rhythmic attention with Andrew Haigh

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