Hi there it's Matt Walker here and welcome back to the podcast and welcome back to a

very special episode I am interviewing a stellar guest. The guest is Dr.

Jessica Lunsford Avery. She is an associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.

She is, by training, a clinical psychologist and she researches and treats a vast array of psychiatric conditions of epic magnitude in terms of their need for treatment.

It ranges from things such as ADHD, mood disorders and anxiety.

Her work is for me, groundbreaking and truly exceptional.

And the work that we're going to focus on today is a topic that I have been asked to cover so many times by you folks, the listeners and the public.

Although I know some about the topic, I wanted to treat it with the

reverence that it deserved and get the world's leading expert here on this

topic. That's who we have in Dr Lunsford Avery. We're going to

focus on sleep and ADHD. Dr Lunsford Avery, Jessica,

welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

It is an absolute privilege and a delight.

So to start with, could you just give us an overview, perhaps of you?

And perhaps a quick summary of your current research focus,

at least as it pertains to sleep and ADHD either in children

adolescents adults expand as you would wish.

Sure so as you mentioned I'm a faculty member at Duke University.

I've been here about 10 years.

And like many of us in academia, I wear multiple hats.

My research program focuses broadly on sleep and mental health and

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