Learning library
Practical, evidence-informed articles on ADHD, Binge Eating Disorder, and the conditions that often accompany them.
August 2024
The impact of sleep on ADHD symptoms: strategies to improve sleep quality and reduce symptoms
Sleep and ADHD influence each other in both directions. Here's what the research says, and practical strategies to sleep better.
July 2024
The impact of nutrition on ADHD symptoms: a comprehensive review
A review of how omega-3s, iron, zinc, additives, and dietary patterns like Mediterranean and Feingold diets affect ADHD symptoms.
July 2024
How to choose a doctor for the treatment of ADHD
Practical guidance on evaluating an ADHD provider's expertise, approach, and accessibility, plus questions to ask and red flags to watch for.
July 2024
Depression in adults with ADHD and how to manage it
Adults with ADHD are roughly three times more likely to develop depression. Here's why, and how the two are treated together.
February 2024
100 Strategies for Students Overcoming ADHD and Eating Disorders
A hundred practical, bite-sized strategies covering routine, focus, nutrition, sleep, relationships, and self-compassion for students with ADHD.
December 2023
ADHD Medications for adults: How They Work & Side Effects
A guide to stimulant and non-stimulant ADHD medications for adults, how each works in the brain, and their common side effects.
December 2023
The impact of stress on Binge Eating Disorder: how stress reduction techniques can improve treatment outcomes
Stress and binge eating reinforce each other in a cycle; here's the neurobiology behind it and the techniques that help break it.
August 2023
What causes binge eating disorder
The signs, diagnostic criteria, and five key causes and risk factors behind binge eating disorder, from neurobiology to environment.
July 2023
How are compulsive eating and ADHD related?
ADHD and binge eating disorder are highly comorbid and share overlapping symptoms, neurobiology, and treatment approaches.
May 2023
Who can diagnose binge eating disorder
Which healthcare providers can diagnose BED, what the diagnostic process involves, and how the disorder is typically treated.
April 2023
How healthy food affects the brain
How nutrients like omega-3s, B vitamins, and flavonoids support cognitive function, plus the foods most linked to slower cognitive decline.
April 2023
Where To Get Tested For ADHD
What an ADHD assessment involves, the diagnostic tools used, who can diagnose it by country, and how long testing typically takes.
March 2023
What are the signs and symptoms of binge eating disorder
Ten key signs and symptoms of BED, its diagnostic criteria and comorbidities, and how prevention and treatment approaches work.
February 2023
How to Treat ADHD in Adults
An overview of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for adult ADHD, from stimulant medication to CBT, coaching, and lifestyle factors.
January 2023
Who Can Diagnose ADHD
The pros and cons of getting an ADHD diagnosis from a GP, psychiatrist, psychologist, or therapist, plus tips for approaching a doctor.
December 2022
What Does ADHD Medication Do for Adults?
A guide to stimulant and non-stimulant ADHD medications for adults, how they work in the brain, and their effects and side effects.
December 2022
We eat to live and don't live to eat
A look at the psychology of hunger, the difference between eating for fuel and living to eat, and practical tips to avoid overeating.
November 2022
How to Focus with ADHD
Why ADHD makes sustained attention harder, and ten practical medication and non-medication strategies to improve focus day to day.
November 2022
How to Check for ADHD in Children and Adults
Who can diagnose ADHD, the tools and scales used, the DSM-V diagnostic criteria, and how testing differs between children and adults.
October 2022
The Top Causes of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
What research says about the genetic, environmental, and neurobiological causes of ADHD, plus the common myths that are simply not true.
October 2022
The Most Important Signs of ADHD
The core inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive signs of ADHD, and how they show up differently across children, adults, and gender.
July 2020
Binge-Eating Disorder can transfer into another eating disorder
BED diagnoses shift over time into other eating disorders, so treatment needs regular review and adjustment to the person's current needs.
July 2020
Insomnia and ADHD
Insomnia affects up to 80% of adults with ADHD, far more than the general population, and both conditions need to be assessed and treated together.
July 2020
Neurobiology in common: ADHD, BED, impulse control disorders
ADHD, binge eating, and impulse control disorders appear to share overlapping brain circuitry involved in reward processing and impulsivity.
July 2020
Neurobiology of BED
A brief research note on the dopaminergic and opioidergic neurotransmitter changes and corticostriatal circuitry underlying binge-eating disorder.
July 2020
ADHD and comorbid conditions
Undiagnosed ADHD in adults often carries untreated comorbidities that mask symptoms and get in the way of proper diagnosis and treatment.
July 2020
BED and bariatric surgery: to be or not to be?
Why weight regain after bariatric surgery is so common, and the role undiagnosed binge-eating disorder plays in that outcome.