ADHD science podcast
Episodes
Episode 32 with Blandine French
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 31 Late Diagnosis of women with Eve Holden and Helena Kobayashi-Wood
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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!Th...
Episode 30 with Catherine Fava
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Max and Tess are joined by Catherine Fava, Clinical Psychologist at Buckinghamshire CAMHS, to talk about her upcoming book about trauma and ADHD. ...
Episode 29 with Robin Ince
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Delighted to welcome Robin Ince, legendary comedian and lovely man, to the pod. Robin's new book, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, is out...
Episode 28: Cognitive disengagement with Stephen Becker
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Max is joined by Stephen Becker, Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati, about the fascinating Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome, a condition that is bo...
Episode 27 with Isabella Barclay
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.Isabel...
Episode 26: The trouble with positive emotions, with Julia McQuade
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Max is joined by Julia McQuade from Amhurst College, USA. Julia has published this paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-024-01...
Episode 25: The positives of ADHD with Dr Tom Nicholson
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 24: The quest for diagnosis with Tom Nicholson
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 chi...
Episode 23: Q&A part 3: Medications
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Faceb...
Episode 22- Quality of life with Alessio Bellato
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Episode 21- Is Rhythm a dancer, after all? with Anders Rasmussen
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. H...
Episode 20- Rhythmic attention with Andrew Haigh
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can squiggly lines on a page reveal the secrets of attention, consciousness and ADHD?Follow Andrew Haigh, psychologist, and his willing sidekicks ...
Episode 19 with Tamsin Crook and Jenny McLaughlin
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A very unique episode because we have two guests! Tamsin Crook is a career coach and researcher, who turned a coaching project into a piece of qualita...
Q&A Part 3- Max debunks things
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another Q&A in which we cover food, laziness, reflexes, the gutbrain, food again, and medication breaks. It gets deep, it gets philosophical, and ...
Episode 17 with Professor Christian Beste
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Fascinating exploration of the idea that event segmentation may be fundamental to the ADHD brain. Prepare to have your mind blown!Link to the Red Ba...
ADHD science episode 16: Q&A part 2
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The long-awaited second instalment of our Q&A epic!Relationships, decision making, memory, perfectionism, self-harm, hormones and sleep. Max and T...
Episode 15- Screen time with Professor Pete Etchells
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Pete Etchells, one of the UK's foremost experts on the effects of screen time and screen-based activities, to talk about his new book, 'Unl...
ADHD science episode 14: Giorgia Michelinin
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Giorgia Michelini, a researcher who has done so much great work on ADHD, but today talks to us about her study of EEG in the di...
ADHD science episode 13: a Q&A with Max!
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have something a little different for you!We have asked the lovely followers of ADHDUK on social media to ask us questions and they have responded ...
ADHD Science episode 12 with Emma Van Andel
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Emma Van Andel, researcher at PsyQ in the Netherlands, to discuss the fascinating connections between light, melatonin, ADHD and slee...
Episode 11 with Dennis Golm
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We join the very lovely Dennis Golm to discuss the weighty subject of childhood maltreatment, and the connection to ADHD. We also get distracted by du...
ADHD Science Episode 10 with Brenda Leung
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we welcome Brenda Leung of the University of Lethbridge to talk about micro-nutrients in ADHD- fascinating stuff! Her paper is here: https...
Episode 9 with Abbey McClemont
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the impact of race on teacher assessments of pupil behaviour with Abbey McClemont of Buffalo University. Her paper is here: ht...
ADHD Science episode 8 with Giacomo Grassi
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We talked to Giacomo Grassi, Psychiatrist and ADHD researcher in Firenze, about the surprising relationship between hoarding and ADHD. His pape...
Episode 7 with Callie Ginapp
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by the amazing Callie Ginapp, who is a resident in psychiatry at the Beth Israel Center, to talk about the things that are important to ...
ADHD Science episode 6 with Kate Anning
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Kate Anning from the university of Cardiff to the pod! Kate's work can be found here: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/anningk...
ADHD Science episode 5 with Alex Hendry
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A corker, this one. We talk to Dr Alex Hendry from Oxford University (see her lab site here: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/alexandra-hendry. W...
ADHD Science episode 4 with Abby Russell
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Abby Russell, Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Exeter University, about Tools for Schools, a project finding practi...
ADHD Science episode 3 with Aja Murray
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by the brilliant Aja Murray of the University of Edinburgh to talk about anxiety and ADHD! This is such an important topic and Aja bring...
ADHD Science episode 2 with Ana-Maria Butura.
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A genuinely cutting-edge chat with Ana-Maria, one of the first people in the world to properly study masking in ADHD. She's too busy to be on social m...
Extraordinary Brains 25 with Joshua Muggleton
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A gentle and intriguing chat with Josh Muggleton, author, psychologist and autistic person, in which we finally get round to discussing his book, Deve...
Extraordinary Brains 24 with Lucy Sanctuary
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by therapist, ADHD queen and the naughtiest girl in her school EVER, Lucy Sanctuary. Lucy has a website at https://lucysanctuary.c...
Extraordinary Brains 23 with Professor Amanda Kirby
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by a legend of neurodiversity advocacy and practice, Prof Amanda Kirby. We talk about her passion for neurodiversity, her response to fe...
Extraordinary Brains 22 with Natasha. Ben and Natasha's Mum!
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Hickling returns for our final partner's special, with a bonus parent contribution! I think the episode speaks for itself, but do tell Natasha...
Extraordinary Brains 21 with Nick Francis
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nick, husband of Liz Francis from episode 11, talks to Max about being the only neurotypical in the village, and what neurodiversity has taught him. H...
Extraordinary Brains 20 with Elina Halonen, the Square Peg Mind
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of our partner specials, Max is joined by Elina Halonen, who is so, so much more than Tane Piper's wife, and can be found at @squarepegmi...
Extraordinary Brains 19 with Cole, the pirate hater
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A great, mind-expanding chat with Cole, who educated us on performance art, farming and the experience of migration, then listened as we waffled on ab...
Extraordinary Brains 18 with 'a medical student'
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bit of a different one today but still, one of my favourites. Our guest isn't comfortable being 100% open with his neurodiversity so we have kept him ...