Research Recap with Skye: Hot & Cold Executive Function

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

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

In this episode we’re going to be continuing our Research Recap series with Skye Waterson. 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 Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) improves hot and cold executive functions in children with attention deficit‑hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57920-3

Now if that sounds like a complete mouthful don’t worry, we’ll be getting into whatever in thing in there means.

As this is a new series, we’re going to be figuring out what works and what doesn’t, and I’d love to hear what y’all think of it, so if you have thoughts, head on over to http://Hackingyouradhd.com/contact and let me know.

I appreciate all the feedback I’ve already gotten and we’re definitely going to work on making sure to get these episodes a little more organized and help you get the most out of every one.

New episodes of research recap will be coming out every other Friday.

All right, let’s get on with the show.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Purb, and I have ADHD. On this
0:06.9	podcast, I take into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:12.3	In this episode, we're going to be continuing our research recaps with Skywaterson series.
0:17.0	In this series, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into what the paper says,
0:20.4	how it was conducted, and then try and find any practical takeaways. In this episode, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into what the paper says, how it was conducted, and then try and find any practical takeaways.
0:24.0	In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation, TRNS, improves hot, cold, executive functions in children with executive deficit hyperactivity disorder, PhD.
0:36.6	Now, if that sounds like a complete mouthful, don't worry, we'll be getting into everything in that name and all what it means. As this is a new series, we're going to be figuring out what works and what doesn't, and I'd love to hear what you think of it. So if you have any thoughts, head on over to hacking your ADHD.com slash contact and let me know. I appreciate all the feedback I've already
0:55.4	gotten and we're definitely going to work on making these episodes a little bit more streamlined,
0:59.3	a little bit more organized, and help you get the most out of everyone. New episodes of research
1:03.6	recap will be coming out every other Friday. All right, let's get on with the show.
1:08.2	Well, I think we should stop by just telling everyone this is going to be good.
1:16.9	We're going to explain it. Don't worry. And let's start with what is hot and cold executive functioning? Because that's kind of the basis of this. And for a lot of people, that might be a
1:22.9	totally new concept, but it's incredibly important for your everyday life with ADHD.
1:29.4	Yeah.
1:29.9	And also executive functions are one of those things that have a grasp on.
1:33.8	They're the higher order processes in our brain with working memory,
1:37.9	or inhibition to be emotional or getting things started, and then also our cognitive
1:43.6	flexibility.
1:44.5	Yeah.
1:45.1	But then if we go into what the hot and cold side of this is,
1:48.6	we have hot ones being this emotionally charged side of things,
1:54.9	are reward processing, risk-taking, delaying gratification,
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