Dr. Julia Schechter
Appearances
Climbing the Walls
Are hormones the final frontier for women with ADHD? | 6
What was very clear from this project is really across groups. So girls and women with ADHD, parents, educators, mental health, medical providers, what they want more of is to better understand the role of hormones on ADHD symptoms and how it impacts children. you know, ADHD across the lifespan. That was just the very clear front runner in terms of research.
Climbing the Walls
Are hormones the final frontier for women with ADHD? | 6
So we are excited to, you know, we're listening, we're listening to those results and thinking about research projects that can address that.
Climbing the Walls
Are hormones the final frontier for women with ADHD? | 6
I think this has not been an area that has been well-funded. And I think that, you know, thankfully, I think it's getting a lot more attention. And I think the funding will follow. But, you know, again, the funding will come. The research will come. It's still going to be, you know, almost two decades before it's going to get into the hands of the people who really need it.
Climbing the Walls
Are hormones the final frontier for women with ADHD? | 6
Before we jump into research, we really need to understand what girls and women with ADHD actually want researchers to study.
Climbing the Walls
Are hormones the final frontier for women with ADHD? | 6
And so what we did was we held what we call listening and learning sessions. They're focus groups, essentially, of different groupings. So we had women with ADHD. We actually had a group of post-menopausal women with ADHD. We had teen girls with ADHD. We had parents of girls, mental health providers, medical providers. We brought them together for these sessions.
Climbing the Walls
Are hormones the final frontier for women with ADHD? | 6
And then we just listened and just heard about their experiences and their challenges. We talked about their strengths too, but really we wanted to draw from these conversations. key areas of uncertainty. What are they uncertain about and what do they want researchers to focus on?