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

Hello, everyone. I'm Carol Fleck, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'm delighted to welcome you to today's ADHD expert's presentation

titled, How Joint Hypermobility links neurodivergence, chronic pain, inflammatory disorders,

and anxiety.

Leading today's presentation is Dr. Jessica Eccles.

Dr. Eccles is a researcher at the Department

of Neuroscience at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom. Her areas of

expertise include brain-body interactions, joint hypermobility, and neurodevelopmental conditions.

Her PhD work focused on the relationship between joint hypermobility,

autonomic dysfunction, and psychiatric symptoms.

So without further ado, I'm so pleased to welcome Dr. Jessica Eccles.

Thank you so much for joining us today and leading this discussion.

Thank you so much, Carol, for inviting me to Attitude. It is a resource that I recommend to my patients.

I just want to have some disclosures here. I have been funded by a number of research charities and grants councils,

but I have no other financial or significant disclosures. I'm going to tell you a little bit about

who I am. So obviously, I'm from the UK where things are maybe a little bit different. I'm a

medical doctor. I also have a PhD. I trained to be a clinical academic psychiatrist.

So I spent a proportion of my time throughout my psychiatric training doing research as well as clinical work.

And I trained in two things in psychiatry.

One was in liaison psychiatry, which is the link between the brain and the body,

and the other was in neurodevelopmental conditions. I work in a wonderful neurodevelopmental service

in the NHS in Sussex, called Sussex Partnership, where we have the world's first neurodivergent

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