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Hi, this is the Woman's Our Parenting Podcast and this is about ADHD. Now the NHS

website defines ADHD as a behavioral disorder. It's thought to affect around 1 in 20 children. An FOI request by The Guardian last year

showed that almost 75,000 children between the ages of 6 and 17 had a prescription for ADHD drugs in England in 2017 to 18.

Now some parents are genuinely quite concerned about their children taking medication

and research has shown that children with

ADHD are more likely to be deficient in omega-3 fatty acids but there was

conflicting evidence that taking supplements could help the symptoms

until now.

I talk to Professor Carminee Pariente, Professor of Biological Psychiatry at King's College London,

who led that research and to Professor

Linna Singh Professor of Neuroscience and Society at Oxford and we started with

Ilina defining ADHD. as an adult disorder and it's made up of what we think of as three components

in attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity and impulsivity and you can it can manifest

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