Welcome to the attention deficit disorder expert podcast series by Attitude Magazine.

On behalf of the Attitude team, I'm so pleased to welcome you to today's ADHD experts presentations

titled Menopause and ADHD.

How estrogen changes impact dopamine cognition and women's health.

Many women, ADHD or not, complain about increased difficulties with attention, organization

and planning, memory, sleep and mood during menopause.

As is the case with various medical conditions that impact women only, the research just

isn't there.

As a result, there are no clear links that have been established yet between ADHD and mental

changes during menopause.

However, we know that estrogen plays a pivotal role in the regulation of many neurotransmitters

such as dopamine, which are also central to ADHD.

Logically, it stands to reason that a loss of estrogen would influence the ADHD brain.

So today's webinar, we will be charting estrogen loss during middle age, explaining how

it impacts cognition and discussing how it may worsen or even quote unquote create ADHD.

We will also review strategies and interventions to address menopause related challenges tied

to mood liabilities, sleep disturbances in attention, memory and more.

We will be doing all of this with the help and guidance of Dr. Jeanette Wasserstein.

Dr. Wasserstein is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Icon School of Medicine

at Mount Sinai in New York.

She is a board certified clinical neuropsychologist who has spent the last 20 years specializing

in the diagnosis, research and treatment of adults with ADHD.

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