518- ADHD Across the Lifespan: How Symptoms Evolve and Fluctuate

ADHD Experts Podcast

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For decades, ADHD was thought to be a disorder of childhood. Maggie Sibley, Ph.D., presents the latest science behind our modern conceptualization of ADHD across the lifespan, including late-onset and late-identified ADHD and fluctuating symptom severity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude magazine.
0:19.2	Hi everyone. I'm Carol Fleck and on behalf of the attitude team I'm pleased to welcome you to today's ADHD experts presentation titled ADHD across the lifespan, how symptoms
0:27.4	evolve and fluctuate.
0:30.1	Leading today's presentation is Dr. Maggie Sibley. Dr. Sibley is a professor at the University of
0:36.4	Washington School of Medicine and a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children's Hospital.
0:43.0	She also serves as Secretary of the American Professional Society of ADHD and
0:48.5	related disorders, and she's an associate editor at the Journal of Attention Disorders.
0:55.0	Dr. Sibley is the author of Parent Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits in ADHD,
1:02.0	Building Skills and Motivation. deficits in ADHD, building skills and motivation.
1:04.0	It wasn't so long ago that clinicians and researchers
1:08.0	believe that ADHD only affected children
1:11.0	and that by the time these children reached adulthood
1:14.4	they outgrew the condition. We now know that ADHD accompanies most people throughout
1:20.6	the lifespan and that adults are among the fastest growing group of new diagnoses.
1:26.2	We also now know that the way ADHD symptoms affect daily living can change throughout a person's life. In today's webinar, Dr.
1:35.9	Sibli will explain how ADHD symptoms can wax and wane over time due in part to certain lifestyle changes and triggers.
1:45.9	And she'll discuss what the latest research findings being for professionals and for
1:50.6	adults who have or suspect they have ADHD.
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