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

Today, I'm joined by Skywaterston for our research recap series. In this series, we take a look at a single research paper

and 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 a quantitative analysis of fidgeting in ADHD

and its relation to performance and sustained attention

on a cognitive task.

And so yeah, this study is investigating the functional role of fidgeting in adults with ADHD

and how that affects their performance when doing tasks.

So, let's get into it.

Yeah, I'm really excited to get into this one.

When we said we would talk about fidgeting and ADHD,

I had no idea that there was so much cool stuff out there about it. Well, so I did an

episode on fidgeting a number of years ago and I was like looking through this paper and I was like,

this paper came out in 2004. That would have been great had I not done an episode about it two years

earlier because I would have loved to use this one. And that's why I love being, having this focus on research because there was so much good

ADHD research coming out.

I feel like it's, it's the daily news cycle for me in terms of like something that came out

so recently.

And I'm going to just say it up front, this paper is going to make you feel better about yourself.

So just so you know.

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