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

I'm Susan Koppen in for Attitude magazine and our guest today

Dr Stephen Henshaw a professor of psychology at the University of California at

Berkeley will be talking about ADHD and gender. His work focuses on the

developmental psychology of women and children especially

interventions for children with ADHD girls and women. He's the author of

more than nine books including a soon to be released to the

ADHD explosion and today's press for performance. So Dr Hinshaw thank you again

for joining us.

Well, it's great to be here and in the course of a few short minutes, we'll ask and quickly answer the question,

does ADHD exist in females because for a long time, the field didn't really think that was true, and it's

absolutely true.

We'll mention this thing called the gender paradox.

We'll talk about whether boys really have more ADHD than girls and if that changes

over time, we'll talk about some of the very serious clinical consequences of ADHD in girls as girls turn into teens and adults and

will mention very briefly this important concept of stigma and it might be particularly

important for girls and women with ADHD. We thought as a field for a long time two things.

ADHD occurs in boys and not in men, so it's a childhood male disorder. We know that ADHD is a pretty

equal opportunity condition across all socioeconomic strata, across both sexes,

and ADHD does not stop once you hit puberty

or age 21 or 25 on up the scale.

Although its form may change the scale. Although its form may change. The most flagrantly

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