Professor Dave Coghill

That would improve your child's life.

End your life and improve family life.

It would improve their outcomes.

It might improve how they do at school, but they still would be impulsive and forgetful and disorganized.

What our guidelines say, and actually pretty much every guideline around the world now, is the best treatment for ADHD is a combination of education, psychoeducation, help people understand, as your podcast do and others do, help people understand the truth about ADHD, right?

Treat the symptoms.

If you're going to treat the symptoms, then actually medication is the effective treatment that we have.

And then give people psychological support and therapies like parent training, like cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, that helps people manage the consequences of their ADHD symptoms.

I think for me, and this is something that I'm working on in my research, we've got a lot of good treatments, but we don't always put them together in the most effective way.

And so what we're working on is to build more efficient ways to recognize what is and what isn't.

ADHD.

And then we're also working hard on making sure that you can guarantee to get the most effective package of treatment.

And we know that that's not easy.

It's a bit about helping empower people with ADHD to ask the right questions.

you know, make my life uncomfortable, make some demands of me, come and say, thanks for the help, but I think it could be better, you know, so to empower people to ask for the right things and ask the right questions.

We know that a lot of people go to TikTok.

We know that only 30% of what's on TikTok is accurate.

How can we empower young people to access the right, the good quality information?

Because that's not always happening at the moment.