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 practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

Today, I'm joined by Sky Waterston 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

prevalence, patterns, and predictors of sleep problems and daytime sleepiness in young

adolescents with ADHD. And so this is a study that's investigating the high prevalence of sleep-related issues in adolescents with ADHD. And so this is a study that's investigating high prevalence of sleep-related issues

in adolescence with ADHD, and this paper is also trying to distinguish between like nighttime

sleepiness disorders and daytime sleepiness. So the story here being that, you know, hey, maybe ADHD

might not be caused by poor sleep quality alone, but there are like strong links to other

things like sluggish cognitive tempto, which we'll all get into. So how about that? Let's just

dive in. Yeah, this was a, this was a very, very interesting study. And they were basically going in and

saying, okay, like you said, ADHD has been considered to be related

to sleep problems. I think in some cases, especially with young people, they will literally

check for sleep conditions as part of the diagnostic process. But let's figure out what is

going on. So they describe daytime sleepiness as something that, you know,

affects upwards of 50% of adolescents with ADHD, and this is specifically about adolescence.

Can you give us a sense of what daytime sleepiness looks like? Because I feel like this was

something that they didn't necessarily go into enough because it just sounds like what it is, right?

It's just being sleepy in the daytime.

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