Chronobiologist here. And also have ADHD.<p>The associations with ADHD really are there, but that may just also be because a huge number of brain processes have a circadian regulation, and those get disrupted by whatever is causing ADHD.<p>The causality is also bidirectional, because whatever ADHD does could cause light exposure behavioral changes, which could leave a circadian phenotype.<p>In general, a huge number of diseases have circadian phenotypes. To be a circadian disorder, you’d have to have clock mutations, and ADHD really doesn’t have those. So calling it a circadian disorder feels off.<p>But from personal experience, the linkage is strong enough to warrant deeper research, and beyond that, there’s some steps we can take ourselves. Regular walks in nature, going out to get sun… all generally useful things to do that do seem to help ADHD as well.
> The causality is also bidirectional, because whatever ADHD does could cause light exposure behavioral changes, which could leave a circadian phenotype.<p>This seems the most likely given my own experience with ADHD and sleep issues. Good sleep alleviates some of the worse aspects of ADHD. Conversely bad sleep exacerbates ADHD symptoms which can also worsen sleep, etc.<p>My 23andme profile says I have genes associated with delayed sleep. ADHD (and autism) really seem like they're driven by a cluster of multiple genes with many overlapping between people with the condition(s), but not all.<p>One rationale for that is how surprisingly prevalent ADHD is across many societies, which only makes sense to me if there's multiple genes which combine and which together confer various advantages to societies as a whole (if not to the individuals). One of the gene sets seem to be sleep issues. It makes sense in a pop-psychology level evolutionary biology where the "creative" types also tend to stay up later which might give them more focus time, or perhaps for story tellers / poets recounting tribal history, etc.<p>I hope this area gets more research. These things are highly inheritable among families.
I have had the opposite effect. The days where I get 8 hours of good quality sleep per Oura and Garmin have been some of my least productive days, which is always contrary to my expectations. My most productive and focused days are usually when I get 5 hours after a few nights of solid sleep. It might relate to the hangover effect, but I've never really been hung over before so I don't know if that would affect me.
There’s no clear set of genes that causes delayed sleep. You definitely have those rare mutations of core clock genes which causes their circadian cycle to have distinct properties, one of the outputs of which is a natural sleep preference that’s out of phase with typical societal rhythms, but is still a normal amount of sleep, and its consolidated and restful etc.<p>But the clock itself has a population wide variation in its actual period. It varies between 23.8 hours and 24.6 hours, and everyone far from the 24 hour ideal pays a tax. The clock either has to phase advance or phase delay to synchronize, and over time that has all kinds of impacts, including on sleep, but also memory and learning, stress, attention…<p>The whole system is clocked. Every cell in our body runs a 24 hour cycle, driven by the transcription, translation, inhibition and breakdown of the core clock proteins. They’re in a negative feedback loop, with a time delay, and all kinds of mutations can shift the overall period of the clock. If it’s of a core clock protein, the effect will be strong, but other genes cycle or have their functions in a cycle due to the clock, and feed back into the clock, so small mutations can accumulate to cause circadian period variation.<p>It’s also why you see circadian phenotypes in all kinds of diseases. Definitely needs more research, but the research is also <i>hard</i>. You need to observe the body in high resolution over many time points to start making sense of all this, and that’s expensive and exhausting. We’ll get there, though.
Creative types often have sensory differences and staying up at night helps alleviate the overload that intense sunlight and people cause.<p>I know because I am on the spectrum and suffer from overload. At night is my "flow time" when the creativity happens.
Exactly I’m glad to hear it from chronologist. I have schizoaffective, bipolar type, very affected by light changes.<p>I also have polymorphism in my melatonin, receptor genetics that are linked to this disorder. But I have several other genetics that make this a definite polygenic disease. So I highly doubt chronology efforts are going to work in a holistic way.<p>My heritage is from the Sami people of Finland. And my disorder is most likely related to that heritage and my sensitivity to light changes. But also changes in my diet. Specifically higher omega-3 fatty acids, and I mean really high.
> walk in<p>> see this title<p>> oh man that would explain a lot<p>Ok after reading a chunk of this the correlation is pretty wild. Having the data it’s quite striking. Sleep intervention as a form of ADHD treatment has always seemed reasonable to me but this gives a lot more clarity to the approach and mechanisms.<p>For me, the seasonal aspect of it aligns with their blue light findings (both driving symptoms and aligning with improvement under the intervention of having a grow-LED garden setup on my desk), and in a second maybe related matter we’ve found using blue light blocking glasses an hour before bed to be the most impactful single intervention around sleep quality and onset (the ones that are like orange laser safety glasses, not the mildly reflective desk-work glasses)
I had great success reflecting 80,000 lumens of work lights off my living rooms ceiling during winter for a couple years.<p>At a new home, I remodeled four rooms to have three bands wide of LED lighting surrounding the ceilings, hidden from below by cove molding. It is an actual sunny day, with an “an actual” sunny sky inside. Winter, midnight, eclipse? Not a concern.<p>Having all that intense light reflecting off entire ceilings creates soft diffuse lighting, no shadows, even though it is extremely bright.<p>Helped a lot with waking up and avoiding depression, all year round.<p>On the sleep treatment, anything that can help sleep is good, my body has always operated well on a 30 hour day, which means terribly almost all the time, by default. But I do a lot of things that help, so my sleep is pretty good most of the time.<p>I would see sleep aids as a pretty narrow interventions relative to my ADHD.<p>Correlation would be nowhere near equivalence.
Ah on the 30 hour day: I had some success living a 28 hour day for a few months, which has the nice property of meaning your awake hours are identical week to week making it at least somewhat possible to interface with polite circadian society.<p>6x 28 hour days pack cleanly into a 7-day week, so all Mondays you wake at the same time, then all Tuesdays you wake 4 hours later and so on. It was one of the most productive times of my life but ultimately left my partner feeling unhappy and lonely.<p>Fuck it we do our best with 24 hour days…
> ultimately left my partner feeling unhappy and lonely.. do our best with 24 hour days<p>Impossible to express just how deeply frustrating it is to have the “sleep when I want you to, not when you want to” kind of fight. Over and over. For decades after being a grown ass adult.<p>It’s weird that it has to be explained to 24h normies but pressuring someone to alter a part of their biology like this is wrong. Gosh honey, plastic surgery might be uncomfortable in an ongoing way for you, but I’m willing to take that risk. Gee babe, I see you need a vegan/carnivore lifestyle but please change this just doesn’t work for me.<p>People can always make these things their red line and force the issue I guess, find out where the other person’s red line is. The weird part is that the sleep thing is generally accepted as reasonable and polite society kinda regards the other behaviors as very unacceptable
Your comment prompted the epiphany that I am a natural 4-cycle per 5-day person.<p>That's enough synchronization that I am going to give some thought to what the crossovers times with "normals" will be, and may try it.<p>Synchronizing across M-F, then adjusting between Friday evening and Monday morning, to repeat.
The 30 hour day feeling resonates. If I have no external schedule or I'm just living as I see fit, I end up gravitating to 3am bed, ~12pm wake sorta schedule. The only real problem is that it's functionally incompatible with jobs and many other services, even fully remote
Same. For me it's more like 4-6 am bed.<p>I also work best in long bursts of up to 12 hours, with days of full rest in between bursts. I don't do well with a five days a week 9-5 work schedule.<p>And timeline urgency / time pressure tends to do well at putting me into deep flow state, whereas it can be hard for me to get into flow state for work otherwise.
Live on East Coast, take a west coast remote job. 9am Meeting is noon.<p>I did this for several years. It works great
I can confirm this effect. One winter I left 2x300w living room lights on perm, and it had a dramatic effect. The only issue is that its nice to turn lights off at night, and if you do that, now you're in habit-dependent territory.
This sounds amazing- do you have part list or pics/write up?
I had a contractor and an electrician! There is some significant power draw.<p>It’s been five years, so I expect the best components are different, more efficient and cheaper.<p>In winter, the lights can be considered part of my heating system. In summer, windows get opened. If I did it again, I would have some little fans up there expelling air from the cove directly outside.<p>But that is fine tuning. I am really happy. (When the lights are on. /h)
> walk in<p>> see this title<p>> think authors are reversing causation <i>hard</i><p>-- signed, a deep Night Owl
Indeed.<p>The following (informally described) symptoms are well-known <i>consequences</i> of ADHD:<p>- Delayed Sleep Phase [1]<p>- Staying Up Late [2]<p>- Revenge Bedtime Procrastination [3]<p>Newsflash, <i>getting a full night's sleep</i> helps alleviate ADHD symptoms, while being perpetually sleep-deprived wrecks us.<p>But there are <i>reasons</i> why we stay up late. Simply forcing us to sleep doesn't address those <i>reasons</i>.<p>Which is why I wrote about it so much, and keep spamming these links even though it feels so darn <i>obvious</i>. Not to the authors of the study, it appears.<p>[1] <a href="https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Delayed%20Sleep%20Phase" rel="nofollow">https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Delayed%20Sleep%20Phase</a><p>[2] <a href="https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Staying%20Up%20Late" rel="nofollow">https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Staying%20Up%20Late</a><p>[3] <a href="https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Revenge%20Bedtime" rel="nofollow">https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Revenge%20Bedtime</a>
going to bed early feels like i'm a child being punished.<p>staying up late rocks. its the funnest. why would i give that up? just to pay attention better at work? no thanks.
> staying up late rocks. its the funnest. why would i give that up? just to pay attention better at work? no thanks.<p>You may eventually find yourself in a situation where the tradeoff is worth it.<p>E.g., you have a family to feed, and your ability hold a well-paying job hinges on your performance.
> E.g., you have a family to feed, and your ability hold a well-paying job hinges on your performance.<p>I can do all of these things anyway. Of course, this does present the potential reality that were I able to sleep like people, I could be even <i>more</i> successful, but after a near death experience, then disability, I've learned to be happy with where I am.
There's only one little problem with that reasoning, my friend...<p><i>sigh</i><p>ADHD PEOPLE ARE NOT MOTIVATED BY REWARD[1]<p>We literally <i>can't</i> do the things we want and <i>need</i> to do [2].<p>We know full well the trade-off is <i>worth it</i>. It's just that we <i>can't</i> have it.<p>Sincerely,<p>--an AuDHDer<p>[1] <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3010326/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3010326/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://add.org/demand-avoidance/" rel="nofollow">https://add.org/demand-avoidance/</a>
> ADHD PEOPLE ARE NOT MOTIVATED BY REWARD<p>I'm not sure that's an entirely fair way to frame that. ADHD people can be highly motivated by reward, but being motivated isn't enough to consistently navigate the path from wanting something to getting something. Reward can make you want something more, and even try harder for it, but ADHD means that sometimes no matter how much you want something and how hard you try it just doesn't happen.
A delayed sleep/wake cycle is only relevant in the context of a society where people are forced on an unnatural sleep schedule. You could get a full 9 hours of high quality sleep every single night and still be considered to have a delayed sleep/wake cycle disorder.<p>Some people are just night owls. A large percentage of night owls have ADHD. I think they can linked without it meaning that people with ADHD have to learn to get up at 5AM.<p>Keep staying up late if that's what feels natural for you, but it's probably worth making sure that you're still getting enough sleep and that you don't have other issues (like sleep apnea) keeping you from getting the quality of sleep you need. There's a lot of other health issues associated with sleep disorders and sleep problems will tank people's ability to focus even when they have non-ADHD brains.
This is my feeling too, going to sleep early feels like I’m missing out on so much. My entire family other than my late father has been this way since forever, we almost never go to bed till 2-3 am.
when left to my own devices without external time constraints (e.g., gradschool), i settle into sleeping from 4am-11am.<p>but there's a strong cultural bias to judge people that wake up at 11am as lazy. and people that stay up to 4am are reckless.<p>but somebody that slept the same seven hours from 11pm-6am is pragmatic and responsible.
It's hard to interface with society this way. I'm the same as you and have waxed and waned many times. There are periods where I'm all about being social and living a normal life. There are other times where I'm just down to only sleep when I'm dead tired (as opposed to using drugs to keep me in normal rhythm). There are tradeoffs
> Newsflash, getting a full night's sleep helps alleviate ADHD symptoms, while being perpetually sleep-deprived wrecks us.<p>being perpetually sleep-deprived wrecks everyone. If you've got ADHD getting the sleep you need won't cure it, but it will make it easier to manage. If you don't have ADHD, but a lot of the symptoms fit for you, getting sleep might those all go away.
Lots of the things on this site are normal things that everyone experiences to some degree ...right?
>Lots of the things on this site are normal things that everyone experiences to some degree ...right?<p>Everyone may experience <i>some</i> of those things <i>some</i> of the time, particularly if they are overwhelmed, overworked, overstressed, etc.<p>ADHD is experiencing <i>most</i> of these <i>most</i> of the time - as in <i>all the time</i> - for your <i>entire life</i>.<p>As an analogy: everyone may experience toe pain sometimes <i>if and when</i> they stub their toe on kitchen table leg.<p>But if it hurts like that <i>all the time</i>, for your <i>entire life</i> - you'd get it checked out, right? There are solid chances something is different about <i>your</i> body.<p>Now multiply that by 100.<p>To reword this: say, each <i>relatable</i> entry on that page is a 2% likelihood of ADHD.<p>If you relate to 100 of them, the chances you're <i>not</i> ADHD drop to 13%.<p>I've got enough people through an official diagnosis this way that this page, in itself, is a decent enough diagnostic tool.
Almost my exact response.<p>And the cruel tragedy is that it becomes this self-reinforcing cycle.<p>Sleep bad > "Bad" ADHD day > Harder to fall asleep. Rinse. Repeat.
>open the door<p>>get on the floor<p>>walk the dinosaur
Has anyone considered that one reason for being/staying awake late at night that's very salient for ADHD people is that night tends to be much quieter, so it's a period when it's much easier to think/read/work without constant interruptions. Noise pollution isn't taken seriously enough.
That's a good point, although at the same time, even the most quiet environment can only help so much to stave off distraction and once hyperfocus starts there's very little that can pull you away.
Oddly, I gravitate towards noise like a busy coffee shops or taking walks along highways. The background noise keeps unwanted thoughts from barging in
Beware that <i>Frontiers In</i> is a <i>very low quality outlet</i> and most scientists stay far far away from it (unless they really need a publication the next three weeks since they have that tenure track review coming up).<p>Eg see <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/frontiers-retract-122-articles-links-thousands-other-publishers-journals-to-unethical-network/" rel="nofollow">https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/frontiers-retract-122...</a>
> Frontiers has an artificial intelligence review system for submitted manuscripts, which now includes verification of the reviewers’ and handling editors’ conflict of interest statements, the company said.<p>problem solved I guess
yeah, this is what I came here to say<p>I don't know about Frontiers in Psych specifically, but, see also:
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/1oi5dhy/whats_the_reputation_of_frontiers/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/1oi5dhy/whats_...</a>
The title of the article is irresponsibly chosen.<p>- My time in the field of psychology has made me think that the use of imprecise language for describing psychology has a large and problematic societal impact<p>ADHD is correlated with but is NOT a "circadian rhythm disorder". This is definitionally true.<p>There are many causes of ADHD. One of them is likely sleep issues.
There seems to be almost nothing new here. I see that the main studies the they cite are actually from the 2010s:<p><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h68.abstract" rel="nofollow">https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h68.abstract</a><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389945719301388" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13899...</a><p>I'd be curious to see if there's been any larger scale follow up on this since.
This is what openai needs to be spending their compute on. Screw the stolen math proofs. Help me sleep better
Three things that helped me with my circadian phase (to certin extend)<p>1) Melatonine 300mcg 5-6 hours befor desired sleep time
2) 10k lux light for 30m when waking up
3) Nobeltin (nootropic) it enhances clock amplitude, so I do get less sleepy during teh day and more sleepy at night ..<p>things taht kind of helped but find hard to keep: Keto
(I feel less sleepy on Keto, and easier to fall a sleep but it's been a while since ive been on keto)
+1 to melatonin. It took me a very long time to dial in the right dose though. It’s not like it’s some miracle cure but it has helped a bunch with being able to fall asleep at a reasonable time, sleep through the night, and thus wake up at a reasonable time. Which of course helps a bit with everything else
I can't help but notice that there's a lot in the direction of ADHD is linked to sleep pattern differences, and there's evidence that you can alter those sleep pattern differences through a number of environmental/behavioural interventions but the idea that this actually helps ADHD symptoms as such seems to be left up to the imagination of the reader.
Dr. Sandra Kooij is a good person to look up if you are interested in adult ADHD and sleep. She has a book about it. From what I remember, there are a few things that are known:<p>1. a large majority of ADHD sufferers are phase-delayed and struggle with insomnia<p>2. you can induce ADHD-like symptoms in normal people by restricting sleep<p>3. Some of the interventions that improve sleep timing and quality affect ADHD (but it isn't a total cure)
> 1. a large majority of ADHD sufferers are phase-delayed and struggle with insomnia<p>I would think this wouldn't be such a problem if society would acknowledge night owls exist and allow work to adjust accordingly. Forcing a night owl to live the life of a morning lark is likely not the best way to get their best work. The person suffers who has to try and live in a world not designed for when they sleep, and the employer suffers by getting less out of those people.<p>I have ADHD and left to my own devices I would go to sleep somewhere between 2-4am. At work, I don't function so well before about 2pm some days... and by that point that day is almost over.
Completely agree, and tend towards the same schedule. I don't even mind working in-person with people, but this idea that everyone should just be uniformly aligned to operate on the same hours is alienating and humiliating at times.
> I have ADHD and left to my own devices I would go to sleep somewhere between 2-4am. At work, I don't function so well before about 2pm some days... and by that point that day is almost over.<p>Indeed. I've struggled with it since childhood, not only me. The same "symptoms" for lack of a better word are seen with my mother, my aunt and my grandmother. All are night owls, all sleep poorly etc.<p>For whatever reason, regardless of how much sleep i've had, my brain begins to kick into high gear with a clarity of thought and capacity to dedicate myself to things starting at about 9PM. This remains true REGARDLESS of sleep, how well rested I am, general health, etc. I could have had NO sleep for 24 hours, still be away at 9PM the next night, and it's like a switch.<p>The ONLY time this ever differs, for reasons still unknown, and where I fit into "normal society" is for whatever reason, when I visit Russia (which I have not done for some time for obvious reasons.)<p>When I am in Russia, with no effort at all, I sleep normal hours without issue, and wake up during the day time actually well rested. This ceases once I return to my timezone. This same pattern is not seen when say, I visit the US instead.<p>If only I could harness this magic...
being a night owl is not good for your health for a lot of reasons (I am one).
As long as you're getting enough sleep and some sunlight what's the problem? I'm guessing that a lot of people who are night owls aren't getting that, and that a lot of people who have other health issues (especially sleep disorders) end up living the night owl lifestyle, but I don't see why it should matter what specific times you go to bed.
This would depend on the individual, or so my sleep team, including my sleep doctor suggest.<p>It is better for me to align with a pattern where I get some level of restful sleep, as opposed to one where I do not ultimately.<p>In an ideal world, you are obviously correct, but in the world between a severely disturbed sleep where I get a handful of hours of actually restorative sleep, vs once where I actually sleep for 7 hours? One wins over the other.<p>And yes, given I have an entire medical team (for other reasons, I have a SCI) I have done about everything you can to resolve sleep. Between ADHD however, symptoms related to the SCI etc, we really do just have to go with whatever we can reasonably get.
its a catch all for people whos brains didnt develop correctly, people who are a genius, and boys
I have both ADHD and Orthostatic Dysregulation (OD), a 20-40% comorbidity where ADHD-induced sleep issues disrupt the autonomic nervous system, making standard OD treatments less effective.
Disruptions to sleep aggravates underlying issues, mentally or physically.
I still have problems, but my life categorically improved once I got diagnosed and treated for obstructive sleep apnea. I focus on things much better, I'm better at juggling tasks, and I'm just <i>nicer</i> to people, or at least my fuse is considerably longer than it used to be. Also I'm sure my wife is grateful that I'm not snoring or gasping for breath every night.<p>I would highly encourage anyone who <i>can</i> get a sleep study done to do it. Most insurance companies will at least cover the sleep study and sleep sleep apnea can lead to a lot of considerably-more-expensive issues later down the line. It's not very invasive anymore, all they had to do was have me sleep with a pulse oximeter for a few nights and apparently that was enough.
I am lucky I don't have disruptive sleep issues, but my brain still feels slightly foggy and my battery feels 75% charged in the morning. I imagine if I had disruptive sleep issues I might as well be toast. Or maybe I'm just not aware of disruptions in my sleep...
If you haven't had a sleep study to check for sleep apnoea you should get one. It's very common, anyone can have it and the only way to check properly is a sleep study. You can have sleep apnoea without being a snorer and you can sleep next to someone without them being aware of it. It's extremely bad for your health and very treatable.
What's wrong with being toast? :P<p>My sleep issues are at least manageable.
I was like you. A year ago, I was tired as hell despite sleeping (well, not enough, but I've never slept 'enough'). A few people said sleep apnea but i was not overweight and didn't snore. I tried the test anyway, and it turns out I wasn't breathing. I used an oral appliance and a year later, it's gone and I feel better.<p>Also, without doing anything my triglycerides, LDL cholesterol and blood sugar which had gone way out of whack, went back to normal.<p>I started using my oral appliance on a Monday. That Friday I was so energetic I ran 12 miles in one go. I hardly ever run or even practice that much, but I was just so wired that I couldn't help it. It was an amazing feeling. I highly suggest sleep apnea treatment even if you don't think it sounds like you.
> Melatonin and bright light therapy has advanced DLMO in both children and adults with ADHD<p>Tried it with gusto over about 3, among a ton of other things. Didn't work for me at all.<p>> we propose a pragmatic, behavioral-first clinical pathway<p>Read: cheap
> we propose a pragmatic, behavioral-first clinical pathway<p>> Read: cheap<p>I mean, if it works great, if it doesn't there's a lot of other options.
For a time I had to wake up at 6AM for work and it was a period where I struggled the most with my ADHD symptoms.<p>I hope there is more awareness in the future about the importance of sleep for neurodivergent people. This could help with the social jet lag most of us feel with having to follow a schedule that simply does not work for us.
I've been using a smart switch to fade in a light (one of the "sun-like" full-spectrum ones) over my head in the morning and it's been really effective for regulating my circadian rhythm. Even with little sleep, I will naturally wake up in the morning at a much more regular time.
I have been using one of those sunrise alarm clocks for around 8 years now. If I go to bed at a reasonable time, the light will wake me up naturally before the alarm actually goes off. However, if I stay up too late the effect of the light fades. I'll sleep right through the light and need the alarm. On one occasion when I must have been really sleep deprived, I slept through the light, an hour of the alarm going off, and another 2-3 hours after that.
If the light turns on too quickly for me it’s super jarring and I hide under the covers. Did you find one that goes bright over the course of 30m or something? Or can you handle the quick increase in brightness?
Smart bulbs.<p>You can make your artificial sunrise take as long as you want, and connect them to a sleep tracker so they're timed to wake you up during a comfortable phase.<p>I've been doing this for 12 years, and I don't think I have ever been upset to hear my alarm since, as long as I'm home and the lights have prepared me. Lately I've even been waking up before my alarm about half the time, even though I work on a schedule one time zone east of where I am.<p>It's shocking to me that it's not more popular for everybody. I guess the benefit is hard to explain.
I have a sunrise alarm clock, I think from Phillips. If I set the alarm for 8am, the light will start turning on at 7:30am then slowly increase in brightness over the next 30 minutes until 8am when it's at full brightness and the alarm goes off (which are nature sounds).<p>When it first starts, it's more of a warm glow than a light. The max brightness can also be set.
Google for "wake-up light". Philips is the brand I'm familiar with but there are others.
It's a controllable dimmer switch that I fade in over the course of an hour or so using a Home Assistant script.
I do the same with a lifx bulb, it can be set up to fade and colour shift over any duration you like.
ADHD meds also impact circadian rhythm. So I don't really know how a study could look at this dynamic with any usefulness.
So does eating properly and consistently. A likely expensive but also likely useful study could therefore measure multiple known sleep hygiene approaches in isolation, then in combination, and then look at the degree of correlation in comparison to controls.
Some of the observed differences might be cleanly attributed to previously not properly controlled for effects such as irregular meal schedules.
How do the authors disentangle cause and effect here? It doesn't follow that sleep issues are an underlying cause, and not just one of the MANY symptoms of ADHD.
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Could explain one pathway on how Guanfacine, an ADHD-approved, blood pressure-lowering, sleep-inducing drug, works.
Sleep inducing? "Guanfacine may worsen sleep in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, including reduced total sleep time."¹<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanfacine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanfacine</a>
i like the web new things to see about ADHD.
I believe it. I even sought out medical advice on how to best deal with it all. I was given the usual recommendation of low-dose melatonin and light therapy.<p>However, my issue at the time was that I could never find a light with high enough lux values that I felt like I could trust. Plus, another issue with light therapy is that one can basically never stop for any moderate amount of time, and well, my ADHD makes that near impossible.<p>I honestly think I would have better success with sleep issues if I could just control my own schedule or have a flexible schedule, but that is not really a luxury most jobs can provide.
Embrace the nightly builds :P
There seems to be some kind of hidden connection between autism and ADHD. At first sight the definitions are contradictory but in reality, many people have both. Sleep disturbance seem to be common among autistic people too.
Dude I saw sleep specialists at Stanford here in Palo Alto and we still don’t know a lot about it, regardless of what you might read<p>The whole sleep hygiene things been sort of discredited and doctors just follow a script with like 5 things they will prescribe you for sleep problems and after those 5 things it’s like oh well we tried<p>I once showed them a study I found online in a reputable journal (at least the study was conducted by someone from a well regarded university in a journal that wasn’t obviously bad)<p>The doctor didn’t even look at the study, he just saw where it came from and said “yeah we don’t use that journal”<p>I would have much more appreciated an answer if I don’t have time to read your bullshit vs what he gave me
Can someone give me the tl:dr, I lost track after the title /s<p>(Adhd joke hehe/no hehe)
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Yes random Hacker News poster, you know more than the entire psychiatric profession.<p>All those peoples with doctorates who spent their lives studying the human brain are wrong, but you alone know the truth.
Beyond the blatant appeal to authority, it is funny that you think even psychiatrists have a consensus on issues like these. Psychiatry is rightly described as the humanities arm of the medical profession.
Believe it or not, some of us are well read on the disorders we have to live with every day. Also, reading research papers will never replace the deep understanding of living with the disorder itself.<p>This article is 100% conflating cause and effect.
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As a person whose extreme lack of attention went away spontaneously once after a meditation retreat I am skeptical of most things anybody says about ADHD. The inattentiveness eventually came back a few months later but I am still squarely in "this is more complicated than people make it out to be" camp.
So is conservatism. I'm tired of people loudly opining based only on their inability to synthesize novel inputs.
Gotta love the HN armchair experts
you are so utterly and completely wrong it's not worth engaging in anything you wrote.<p>please educate yourself: <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8328933/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8328933/</a>
Oh cool so now people will be told to go to sleep earlier and get more sun before you can prove that you deserve actual treatment. Fun...
lists Melatonin, first, then behavioral pseudo-interventions.<p>stay tuned for more monthly product placements on frontiers in, best digested post prime time.<p>Welcome to your readjustment.
Willkommen beim Nachrichten.<p>hey, is anyone wondering if kleine & grosse Lauschangriffe are shared with private people or the guys working for these institutions are trustworthy enough and whether they actually deserved their Bachelor degrees or someone somehow decided they are worth it anyway? wait ... it's just a fucking Bachelors degree
Be me. Too AHDH to even open the article, let alone read the article before moving to the next HN post.