Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host William Kerp and I have ADHD. On this

podcast, I dig into tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

Today I'm joined by SkyWatterson for our research recap series. In this series, we look at a

single research paper, dive into what 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 Evaluation of Maternal

Inflammation as a marker of future offspring ADHD symptoms, a prospective investigation.

And so this is a study that is investigating like these biological origins of ADHD

and, you know, more specifically whether a mother's immune system during pregnancy might be

able to predict ADHD symptoms in those children once they're born. So, yeah, it's pretty dense

paper, but, you know, I thought there was a lot here, so let's get into it.

Yeah, and I will say it's great. This is why I love doing this will, because I so much

appreciate that you are willing to go into this denser paper with me. And I want to say up front

when we're going through this paper, we are not experts in the medical field.

And this particular paper is also very preliminary.

So at the end, it specifically references that the purpose of this paper is to decide what needs to be studied more in depth.

So they looked at 68 children from 62 women who were pregnant in an outpatient clinic,

and basically they wanted to understand if the biomarkers for inflammation in the second

trimester were connected to symptoms of ADHD, not ADHD diagnosis,

in later in life. And they were looking at that from teachers and also from the parents

themselves. So it took quite a long time this paper. It was, it was more of a longitudinal study.

Yeah, absolutely.

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