Sleep & Gaming with ADHD: Research Recap

Welcome back to The ADHD Skills Lab!I have a very exciting Research Recap this week on treatment for adult ADHD. The results of these papers are promising, but the most interesting discussion piece comes from "the scientific community" itself.Curious about what's inside?CBT and medicationSupport group for parents Interesting exclusion criteriaThanks for being here! Until next time,Sarah (Podcast Producer)References:01:07 - One-year follow-up of the effectiveness and mediators of CBT among adults with ADHD: secondary outcomes of a randomised controlled trial13:02 - Parent Training Tailored to Parents With ADHD: Development of the Improving Parenting Skills Adult ADHD (IPSA) ProgramLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Welcome back to The ADHD Skills Lab!This week we are highlighting a conversation between Skye and Dr. Anna Burns, an experienced pelvic floor therapist whose own ADHD diagnosis sparked a new passion. Please enjoy this very relatable story of new motherhood during COVID and the extra bits that come with a late ADHD diagnosis.Thanks for being here! Until next time,Sarah (Podcast Producer)ADHD Skills Discussed:Catch and release tasks - what is this?Honor the reminder medium that works for you - paper, digital, combo? Talk about your experience!References:ADHD Symptoms in Females of Childhood, Adolescent, Reproductive and Menopause PeriodRelationship between sex hormones, reproductive stages and ADHD: a systematic reviewLooking for Anna?Personal WebsiteInstagramLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Hello and welcome to The ADHD Skills Lab!This week's research recap is short and sweet, focusing on the atypical communication patterns observed amongst ADHDer's. But the real excitement lies in the potential to reduce accessibility issues within the diagnostic process itself!Thanks for being here! Until next time,Sarah (Podcast Producer)References00:47 - Assessment of pragmatic skills in adults with ADHD12:39 - Acoustic and Text Features Analysis for Adult ADHD Screening: A Data-Driven Approach Utilizing DIVA InterviewLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Hi and welcome back to the ADHD Skills Lab!This week we are offering up an interview with high energy entrepreneur, Kathryn Palmer, who came with lots to share! Curious about what's inside?Talk of misdiagnosis and stigmaHow to thrive while working from home What is the reward for masking and when is it worth it?Thanks for being here! Until next time,Sarah (Podcast Producer)ADHD Skills Discussed:Hyperfocus - to interrupt or not?Chrono-working with ADHDScheduling in variety - why would I do this?Looking for Kathryn?Authentic Public Relations - websiteInstagramLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you! Feel free to @ us and drop a line or two!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Skye jumping in here. Would you like to work with me? I'm looking for eight professionals who were diagnosed late with ADHD, have been struggling with the burnout cycle, and want to have intentional and balanced days in the next six weeks.If that sounds like you, please email me EIGHT at [email protected], and I'll send you the details. Thanks so much for listening. Okay, back to you, Sarah. Skye Hello and welcome to The ADHD Skills Lab!Sarah here, happy to be bringing you another Research Recap.Curious about what's inside?Are all sections of the same assessment tool equally effective? Apparently not...Calling out the procedural issues in the diagnostic processWhat is the main improvement these authors suggest?Thanks for being here! Until next time,Sarah (Podcast Producer)References:Determining cutoff scores on the Conners’ adult ADHD rating scales that can definitively rule out the presence of ADHD in a clinical sampleA Quality Improvement Initiative for Detection of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in an Urban, Academic Safety Net HospitalLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Hello! Welcome to another interview in The ADHD Skills Lab!Skye recently sat down with Chris Backe to discuss entrepreneurship in the highly creative industry of tabletop games. Whether you're a fan of tabletop games or looking to start your own creative venture, you'll find value in this chat.Thanks for being here! Until next time,Sarah (Podcast Producer)ADHD Skills Discussed:Reduce ambiguity around deadlinesVisualize your time available for client workAsk yourself: "Is this the right workspace for this task?"Looking for Chris?Entro GamesInstagramLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you! Feel free to @ us and drop a line or two!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Welcome back to another week of The ADHD Skills Lab! Presenting you with a very special episode all about Dopamine and ADHD. We looked at the landscape of the research then and now, in an effort to bring you the most up to date observations from the scientific community.Curious about what's inside?The various ways dopamine behaves differently in ADHD brains.Where does dopamine actually come from?Find out who else has entered the chat...Thanks for being here. Until next time,Sarah (Podcast Producer)ADHD Skills Discussed:Why you should have protein for breakfastCelebrate your wins regularly and intentionally Don't try to "should" yourself into dopamine - it wont workReferences:01:26 - Neurobiology of ADHD (2009)10:22 - Neurobiology of ADHD): A brief review (2024)19:34 - Reduced dopamine transporter availability in drug‐naive adult ADHDLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Hello and welcome back to The ADHD Skills Lab!This week I am pleased to present a chat Skye had with Leslie Poston, Media Psychologist and founder of Mind Media Tech.Curious about what's inside?Leslie shares her greatest ADHD career strengths.As usual, we get a little personal and talk diagnosis."The best way to manage your ADHD at work..." Thank you for being here. Until next time,~Sarah (Podcast Producer)ADHD Skills Discussed:Setting boundaries around work as a business ownerMaker vs. manager modeWhy we should be networking more and how to do itLooking for Leslie?Mind Media TechPsyberSpace PodcastLinked InTikTokLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you! Feel free to @ us and drop a line or two!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Welcome back to this week's Research Recap in The ADHD Skills Lab!Curious about what's inside:What is the HiTOP model and could it replace the DSM?How might the neurodivergent community evolve in the face of collapsing labels?A little study on ADHD and memory performance tasks...Thanks for being here! Until next time,~ Sarah (Podcast Producer)ADHD Skills Discussed:using jingles as a memory aidphysical and visual totems harnessing repetitionconverting your short term to long term - how to do this?!References:01:15 - Reconstructing Psychopathology: A data-driven reorganization of the symptoms in DSM-510:53 - Verbal memory performance in adolescents and adults with ADHDLooking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

Hello and welcome to another interview in the ADHD Skills Lab!Heather Taylor, accomplished screenwriter and co-host of the Braaains podcast, met with us to discuss her lived experience with ADHD and the many ways it failed to resonate with her early on.Curious about what's inside?How externalizing symptoms become internalizing symptomsHow Heather started healing the guilt and shameWait, you can use DND to explain ADHD to people?!Thanks for being here. Until next time,~ Sarah (Podcast Producer)PS. Have you ever wished you could have an expert look at your organization system and tell you exactly how to fix it? Now you can with Skye here. ADHD Skills Discussed:Anchoring daily activities on each otherHow Heather manages deadlines and the need to write many draftsManaging Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) and Imposter Syndrome Looking for Heather?Personal WebsiteBRAAAINS PodcastNew Audiobook - Coming Soon!Looking for more content? Want to get in touch?We would love to hear from you!IG: Skye @unconventionalorganisationIG: Sarah @theadhdskillslabpodcastYT: Unconventional Organisation ADHDSkye here! We've helped 500+ professionals with ADHD reach their goals. If you'd like to learn how to achieve your goals with ADHD, here are 2 ways we can help you...1. Get started now with my free playbook on how to set goals you can achieve. - Click Here2. Book a free 15-minute focus session with me to break down your goal, identify your biggest barriers, and take the next step. - Click Here Together, let's set your goals into motion! Skye (MA, PG Cert)Former Academic and Founder of Unconventional Organisationhttps://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/