We are as happy as we are surprised by the great interest that our latest study has generated! We take it as a confirmation that it is about time that we focus on the mental health of girls and women with ADHD and establish a foundation for female precision health both within and outside healthcare. The fact is that the male body historically has been the norm for everything from medical research to medicine and society. But the fact is also that women are more than just small men. Biological factors, such as sex hormones, affect the risk of both

For many years, it’s been clear that males and females represent two distinct subgroups of the same species when it comes to physical conditions and disorders. However, this understanding has yet to fully permeate the field of psychiatry. This week’s blog post is a summary of key findings and takeaways from a Harvard review article

Are you one of the women with ADHD who, despite lousy executive functions always seems to be appointed project manager at work? Do you go “all in” in anything from gardening to Excel filing or studies? Do you end up being involved in so many different projects, and spend all your energy joggling different balls that your weekends are all about lying on the sofa trying to recover some strength and sanity before it starts all over again Monday morning? Maybe you are one of many adult women with ADHD that already have suffered multiple episodes of burnout and know

Many ADHD-women report that they react differently on their medication depending on their current hormonal status. Some have, in collaboration with their doctor or nurse, have tried out a more individualized dosing strategy for their ADHD-medications. They describe how cyclic dosing of their meds give them better functioning and less side effects. But what does

Are you one of us who can snooze so many times that others wonder why you even have an alarm? And do you never feel well-rested even no matter how many hours of sleep you get? Are you someone who have always needed more sleep than others and your days have become constant yearning for the bed? Or do you use sleep as an escape mechanism to avoid having to deal with stuff you don’t know how to deal with? Perhaps you struggle unwinding in the evenings in extra challenging periods at work? Or have you never even had routines

This week’s blog is a summary of a study from our Swedish research group at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet. The study called Association of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder with Teenage Birth Among Women and Girls in Sweden was published in JAMA Netw Open in 2019 and explore if women with ADHD have a higher risk of teenage births than their unaffected peers. ADHD is associated with increased risk taking and negative health related outcomes for both males and females and we know that girls and young women with ADHD have an earlier initiation of sexual activity than non-ADHD females. Also, they

The Basic Facts for Everyone It probably won’t come as a surprise to those of you who follow our work at Letterlife that, in addition to ADHD, we’re quite interested in our female hormones and how they affect our brains, bodies and ADHD. But honestly, how much do you really know about the most important

The (lack of) knowledge about ADHD in the elderly Blog by Lotta Borg Skoglund What’s it like to suddenly, as an adult, realize that you’ve lived your entire life without understanding why certain things always seem to go wrong? Why others consistently misunderstand you, and why you can’t seem to do all the things you know you should do? My latest book, “Years Pass – ADHD Lasts” (Natur and Kultur 2023), describe how it can be to get an ADHD-diangosis as an adult or even aging adult. As in my previous books, this recent book is based on narratives from my