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

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Attitude Magazine's ADHD Expert's broadcast.

We hope everyone is staying safe and staying well.

We are pleased to have Roberto Oliveira here to talk about the links between ADHD and

an obsessive compulsive disorder and how to diagnose and treat both when they occur together.

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Now for today's topic, ADHD and the co-occurring condition of obsessive compulsive disorder.

ADHD and OCD are both characterized by executive functioning deficits in the areas of organization,

motivation, decision making, and attention.

It is common that when people have both disorders, one of them goes on diagnosed.

Dr. Oliveira will tap into the latest research literature on this understudied comorbidity.

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