Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD.

I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD, on this podcast adding into the tools,

tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

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 to find any key practical

takeaways, you know, stuff that you can actually use. And in this episode, we're going to be

discussing a paper called, Do executive dysfunction, delay aversion, and time perception deficits

predict ADHD symptoms and early academic performance in preschoolers. And yeah, there's a lot in there, but don't worry, we'll be getting into all of it. Now, before we get started, I want to mention that this is still a new series, so we're going to be figuring out what works and what doesn't, and I'd love to hear what you all think of it. So, if you have thoughts, head on over to Hacking Your ADHD.com slash contact and let me know. I appreciate all the feedback I've already gotten and we're definitely going to be working on trying to do a few things with the show and shaking things up. So try and get the episodes a little bit more, guys, and help you get the most out of everyone. New episodes of research recap will be coming out every other Friday. And with that, let's get

into it. So the paper we're looking at today is about time perception and long-term academic

performance, but really importantly, and we'll talk about this more, it's about that in preschoolers.

So we want to keep in mind, these are four to five girls.

So what we're looking at here, if we want to just give a little baseline introduction before

Will goes into the methodology and how they did this, is that they found that children

with ADHD are commonly observed to have learning difficulties. They talk

about things like discalculia, which I have, so I definitely related to that. And they wanted to look

at how three neuropsychological constructs, so that's executive dysfunction, delay aversion

and time perception, and we'll talk a little bit about what those are,

we're associated with ADHD symptoms and epidemic performance in preschoolers risk of ADHD.

So in terms of how this was done, this was done in Hong Kong, and they measured it at different time periods.

And what they found was interesting in terms of the relationship between our working memory,

our time blindness and potentially our academic performance.

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