Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone, good afternoon, I'm Susan Hoffman. I'm here for Attitudes weekly ADHD

experts broadcast and today we're going to be talking with Dr Roberto

Olivardia about sleep.

You may not be aware of this, you may think that you alone have sleep problems, but it turns

out that people with attention deficit disorder very often struggle with sleep.

Whether it's difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep,

problems waking up, or issues about staying away during the day.

In fact, so serious sleep disorders are extremely common in children, both children and adults

with ADHD. And furthermore, studies show that poor or insufficient sleep obviously no surprise exacerbates ADHD symptoms.

Today Dr. Olavardia, who we are super pleased to have back with us will tell us about

ADHD friendly interventions for sleep problems, a little bit more about the research on

the any challenges of the ADHD brain and give us some examples of people with ADHD who have

managed their sleep issues.

So let me introduce him to you.

He, Dr. Alvardio, is a clinical psychologist

and a lecture in psychology

in the Department of Psychiatry

at the Harvard Medical School.

He's in private psychotherapy practice in Lexington, Massachusetts,

where he specializes in the treatment of ADHD,

also obsessive compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and eating disorders.

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