Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig in the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD frame.

Today I'm joined by Sky Waterson for our research recap series. In this series, we take a look at a single research paper, dive into what the paper says,

how it was conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways.

In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called Improvement of Anxiety in ADHD

following goal-focused cognitive remediation, a randomized controlled trial.

And this is a study that investigates all focused interventions and then looks if they can

improve executive function and emotional well-being for adults with ADHD.

Not too much to it there. So let's get into it.

Yeah, let's do it. So this paper is from Norway. And really what they were looking for was whether having a particular kind of intervention for ADHD, particularly goal-focused intervention.

We'll get into what that means in a second.

Whether it was going to help with ADHD symptoms and associated symptoms like anxiety, for

example, over and above your standard support and your standard treatment, which, given that

it's still probably the beginning of the year when this is coming out, is very useful for people

who might have set some goals of their own or struggle

with ADHD and goal setting because they know a lot of people do.

Yeah.

And it's also, but there is some like interesting caveats to when we're like looking at

this paper too because of like looking at who they had as participants being very focused on people

that are motivated to do this kind of thing so that's i was like this is i understand because you

want to have people complete the study but then yeah how effective is like is, is that factor alone going to be enough?

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah.

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