Dr. Lotta Borg Skoglund

Co-Founder and Medical Director at Letterlife

Dr. Skoglund is a senior consultant physician trained in general medicine and psychiatry and an associate professor in psychiatry at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Uppsala University, and the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

Literature & Clinical Work

Dr. Skoglund is clinically active and dedicated to improving the co-created standard of care through lead patient users and patient organizations.

She is the author of six popular science books translated internationally and holds several commissions of trust in national agencies, non-profit organizations, and patient associations. Lotta is an active advocate for a holistic, empowering, and evidence-based focus on mental health, neurodiversity, and female rights. She is also the co-founder of Letterlife.

Scientific Work

25 years of clinical experince with ADHD

Popular science author

Co-Founder Letterlife

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Her scientific work targets the intersection of ADHD and comorbidity conditions (substance use disorders, personality disorders and mood disorders) as well as gender discrepancies and hormonal factors associated with neurodiversity and ADHD. More specifically, she leads a trans-professional clinically oriented research group of psychiatrists, psychologists, gynecologists, midwifes and sociologists exploring how sex hormones, hormonal contraceptives and sexual risk-tanking interact with ADHD traits, symptom severity and comorbidity in girls and women. Read Lottas Doctoral Thesis.

Here you can find neuropsychiatry studies and international journal publications.

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Blog

The Orthopedic Menopause for Body-Savvy Women

Are you between 40 and 50 and experienced how your body has lost its “forgiving factors”? Many perimenopausal women experience diffuse pain and become more sensitive to both stress and pain. It can lead to many women feeling unwell. In this blog article, Dr. Soheila Zhaeentan explains it all and gives her best tips for

Your Brain’s Gearbox – ADHD and Cognitive Flexibility

Many with ADHD can vividly describe the stress they feel when their plans suddenly change. Or how challenging it is to stop doing something once they’ve started. Even though they know it would be best to wrap up. The impaired ability to shift gears in the brain’s gearbox is called cognitive inflexibility. Tag along, and we’ll take

“If I Don’t Exercise, I’ll Fall Apart”

When Physical Activity Gets Out of Control Isn’t it good to exercise? No, not always, and not for everyone. Of course, there’s no doubt that physical activity is something that fundamentally benefits us and that we need. But movement driven by compulsion is never healthy; in fact, it’s harmful. And it is closely associated