188- Beyond Genes: How Environment and Lifestyle Impact ADHD
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Joel Nigg, Ph.D., shares the latest science behind ADHD, including the interplay of genes and environmental factors, how the ADHD brain connects and wires itself, and how lifestyle changes can improve your child's journey with ADHD.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome, it's Susan Poppen here for Attitude magazine. I am hosting Attitude |
| 0:16.8 | magazine's weekly ADHD experts webinar broadcast. Today we have a really |
| 0:21.7 | interesting talk from Dr. Joel Mig, one of the country's |
| 0:24.8 | leading researchers on attention deficit disorder and he's going to be giving us an |
| 0:28.6 | update on what's new in the science of ADHD and the emerging discoveries about attention deficit disorder and specifically |
| 0:36.1 | new research that characterizes ADHD as a disorder of self-regulation. This is the first of two or three webinars from Dr. Nick. Today he'll give us a general overview of the new science and he'll be back to give us more specific guidance on how to implement some of the findings that he'll be telling us about today. |
| 0:55.0 | A bit of background on Dr. Nick. |
| 0:56.5 | Dr. Nick obtained his VA at Harvard, is MSW at the University of Michigan, and a PhD, |
| 1:01.2 | is PhD from UC Berkeley. |
| 1:03.0 | He's the author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers related to the neuropsychological |
| 1:08.0 | cognitive and temperamental correlates of ADHD and children. |
| 1:12.4 | Papers on ADHD genetics and brain development. |
| 1:15.2 | He's a professor at the Oregon Health and Science University, practicing clinical |
| 1:19.7 | psychologist, and the author of a brand new book that we'd like to tell you about, |
| 1:24.0 | specifically for parents of ADHD children, |
| 1:26.0 | called Getting Ahead of ADHD, |
| 1:28.0 | what Next Generation Science says |
| 1:31.0 | about ADHD and the treatments at work. |
| 1:33.6 | This book was published last week by Guilford Press. |
| 1:36.3 | Hot off the presses and you'll be hearing |
| 1:37.8 | some of the early information that is revealed in that book. |
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