ADHD affects attention, motivation, emotional pacing, sensory processing and how you manage everyday tasks. It influences planning, starting and finishing things, time awareness and how quickly you move from focus to overwhelm.
This ADHD Learning Hub brings together courses, articles, research papers and support organisations to help you understand your own ADHD patterns more clearly.
ADHD Learning Hub | Courses
🧭 ADHD Basics Course
Understand the core concepts.
🪞 Your ADHD: A Personal Deep Dive
Understand your patterns and challenges.
🛠️ ADHD Coping Strategies
Practical tools for and everyday support.
🔬 ADHD Science & Research
Insights into ADHD and the brain.
🤝 Supporting Someone With ADHD
Guidance for partners, parents and friends.
Course Topics
attention patterns, emotional regulation, executive function, focus skills, habit building, initiation struggles, masking and identity, motivation systems, nervous system regulation, planning and routines, rejection sensitivity, relationships and communication, science and research, sensory processing, social dynamics, strengths and creativity, stress recovery, task management, time awareness, working memory
ADHD Learning Hub | Articles and Guides
🧠 Brain, Cognition & Biology
🧱 ADHD Executive Function: Why Planning, Starting and Switching Tasks Feel So Hard
Explains how ADHD brains handle planning, working memory and task switching differently.
🔊 ADHD Sensory Processing & Overload
Shows how ADHD-related sensory processing differences can lead to fast overwhelm.
🩹 ADHD and Pain Sensitivity: Why Pain Feels Different
Describes why many people with ADHD experience pain as either dulled or amplified.
🌙 ADHD Sleep Problems: Why Falling Asleep Takes So Long
Explains why the ADHD brain struggles to downshift and transition into sleep.
🔬 ADHD Science: What Research Reveals
Gives a big-picture overview of what modern research says about ADHD.
📖 10 Landmark ADHD Studies That Shaped Our Knowledge
Summarises key scientific studies that fundamentally changed how ADHD is understood.
🧬 The Neuroscience of ADHD Time Perception
Explores the brain networks behind ADHD’s atypical sense of time.
🫀 ADHD Nervous System Dysregulation: Why Your Body Feels Unpredictable
Explains how ADHD affects arousal, heart rate, tension and general bodily “up and down”.
🧩 ADHD Core Traits & Mechanisms
🧠 ADHD In Adults: What Does It Look Like?
Describes how ADHD presents in adult life beyond childhood stereotypes.
🧠 Common ADHD Traits & Patterns
This guide outlines the core ADHD traits and patterns
💪 ADHD Strengths and Cognitive Advantages
How ADHD strentghs appear in practical, real-world situations.
🧠 ADHD in Women and Girls: The Hidden Patterns
How ADHD presents differently in girls and women across life stages.
⚡ ADHD Motivation Cycles: Why Energy and Drive Come in Waves
Explains why motivation is inconsistent and tied to interest and stimulation.
🧊 ADHD Paralysis: Why Your Brain Freezes
Describes the “stuck” state where intention and action fail to connect.
⏳ Understanding ADHD Time Blindness: 6 Components
Breaks the concept of time blindness into six clear underlying mechanisms.
🕰️ ADHD Time Blindness: Why Time Feels Difficult to Track
Explores why minutes, hours and deadlines feel vague and hard to sense.
📱 ADHD Screens and Dopamine: How to Use Technology Without Falling Into the Scroll Trap
Explains how dopamine-seeking and attention patterns make screens especially sticky.
🌟 ADHD Intuition: Why You Sense Things Before You Understand Them
Explores fast pattern recognition and “gut knowing” as a core ADHD style.
💛 ADHD Emotional Life & Identity
👻 ADHD Emotional Permanence: Why People Feel “Gone” When They’re Not in Front of You
Shows why people can feel emotionally out-of-mind when they aren’t present.
🎭 ADHD Masking in Social Life: Why It Exhausts You
Describes the emotional and energy cost of hiding ADHD traits around others.
🎭 ADHD Masking: What It Is and How It Affects You
Explores masking across social, emotional and behavioural domains.
🌪️ ADHD Emotional Flashbacks: When Past Pain Feels Present
Explains trauma-like emotional surges triggered by current events.
😡 ADHD and Anger: Why Reactions Feel Fast and Intense
Describes why anger can move from 0 to 100 very quickly in ADHD.
🧱 ADHD Identity Confusion: Why You Struggle to Know Who You Are
Explores how shifting interests and feedback can make identity feel unstable.
🏠 ADHD Loneliness: Why You Feel Alone
Explains the emotional experience of feeling “out of sync” and disconnected.
😔 The Shame Around ADHD Time Blindness
Describes how chronic lateness and time struggles build shame and self-blame.
📘 Guide for Late ADHD Diagnosis In Adults
Explores the emotional and identity shifts that follow a late diagnosis.
🔁 ADHD Behaviour, Habits & Daily Functioning
🔁 ADHD Motivation Cycles: Why Energy and Drive Come in Waves
Connects fluctuating motivation to patterns in daily behaviour and task follow-through.
🔁 ADHD Decision Overthinking: When Thought Loops Take Over
Explains rumination and looping when facing even simple choices.
👨👧 Parenting With ADHD: Executive Function, Emotional Reactivity and Realistic Supports
Shows how ADHD traits shape parenting habits and day-to-day interactions with children.
🌍 ADHD Sensory, Social Life & Environment
🏢 ADHD at Work: Why Office Life Drains You
Explains how open offices, social demands and constant switching deplete ADHD brains.
❤️ ADHD and Relationships: Patterns in Love and Conflict
Describes recognisable ADHD patterns in intimacy, communication and conflict.
🎒 50 Tips for High School with ADHD & Anxiety Symptoms
Focuses on school environment, peer dynamics and classroom demands for teens with ADHD.
🔗 ADHD Co-Occurring Conditions & Overlaps
💥 ADHD and Trauma: Understanding the Overlap
Explains how trauma and ADHD can interact, blur, and amplify each other.
💙 ADHD and Depression: Understanding the Overlap
Shows how long-term ADHD struggles can lead to depressive symptoms.
😰 ADHD and Anxiety: When the Mind Never Fully Rests
Explains anxiety that grows out of ADHD-related chaos, unpredictability and overwhelm.
🗣️ ADHD Social Anxiety: Why Social Interaction Feels Stressful or Unpredictable
Explores how ADHD-related inconsistency and self-consciousness fuel social anxiety.
⚖️ ADHD OCD Tendencies: Understanding the Overlap
Clarifies ADHD-driven repetitive thoughts and behaviours that look OCD-like but have different roots.
🔥 ADHD Stress Intolerance: Why Stress Hits You Harder
Describes how ADHD nervous systems reach overload more quickly under stress.
🛠️ ADHD Coping, Tools & Practical Supports
🕒 ADHD Time Strategies That Actually Work
Provides ADHD-friendly time tools that work with, not against, ADHD time perception.
🧺 100 ADHD Daily Life Tips
Offers a wide range of small, practical changes for daily ADHD challenges.
🎯 100 ADHD Focus Tips
Shares concrete, testable tactics to support attention and task completion.
💼 ADHD Career Tips For Job Success
Covers workplace strategies, communication and role-shaping for ADHD employees.
💸 ADHD and Finances: Executive Function, Impulse Spending and Money Shame
Gives practical ideas for managing money when impulse and organisation are both tricky.
🎒 50 Tips for High School with ADHD & Anxiety Symptoms
Provides hands-on strategies for studying, organising and coping at school.
ADHD Learning Hub | Organizations
🧠 CHADD – Children & Adults with ADHD
Leading nonprofit offering education, advocacy, community support, and evidence-based ADHD information across all ages.
🧭 ADDA – Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Focused on adults with ADHD, with webinars, peer groups, coaching resources, and practical tools.
🔬 ADHD Evidence Project
A research-focused resource summarizing high-quality scientific studies and evidence-based ADHD interventions.
🇬🇧 ADHD UK
UK-based charity providing reliable ADHD information, policy guidance, and community support.
🏥 CDC – ADHD Health Information
Public health resource offering factsheets, data, diagnostic guidance, and educational materials.
💼 NHS – ADHD Overview
UK National Health Service pages with trusted information on assessment, symptoms, and treatment.
📘 European ADHD Guidelines Group (EAGG)
Professional group producing clinical guidelines and summarizing scientific evidence for ADHD in Europe.
🌏 ADHD Australia
National ADHD and neurodiversity organisation providing education, advocacy, and policy information.
📰 ADDitude Magazine
A long-established online magazine offering expert-reviewed articles, videos, and practical ADHD strategies.
📚 ADHD Learning Hub | Research Library
Scientific studies on ADHD neurology, genetics, cognition, emotion and daily functioning
🧬 Core Overviews, Prevalence & Lifespan
Faraone, S. V., et al. (2021).
The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 evidence‑based conclusions about the disorder
Large consensus paper summarising what is firmly known about ADHD: nature, course, causes, brain findings and treatment.
Thomas, R., Sanders, S., Doust, J., Beller, E., & Glasziou, P. (2015).
Prevalence of attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta‑analysis
Global meta‑analysis estimating ADHD prevalence at around 7.2 percent in children and adolescents.
Willcutt, E. G. (2012).
The prevalence of DSM‑IV attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta‑analytic review
Classic meta‑analysis summarising ADHD prevalence across many studies and methods.
Mahone, E. M., & Denckla, M. B. (2017).
Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Historical Neuropsychological Perspective
Reviews how our understanding of ADHD has evolved, including executive function, delay aversion and brain imaging work.
🔬 Genetics, Brain Development & Neurobiology
Faraone, S. V., & Larsson, H. (2019).
Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Explains ADHD’s high heritability and what large genetic studies reveal about risk variants.
Demontis, D., et al. (2019).
Discovery of the first genome‑wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Landmark GWAS identifying the first robust ADHD risk loci and genes.
Demontis, D., et al. (2023).
Genome‑wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains
Updated mega‑analysis expanding ADHD risk loci and connecting them to brain development and cognition.
Shaw, P., et al. (2007).
Attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation
Imaging study showing that cortical maturation, especially in attention‑related regions, is delayed in children with ADHD.
🧠 Executive Function, Motivation & Timing
Nigg, J. T. (2005).
Neuropsychologic theory and findings in attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the state of the field and salient challenges for the coming decade
Major review tying ADHD symptoms to executive functions, motivation, state regulation and timing.
Toplak, M. E., Jain, U., & Tannock, R. (2005).
Executive and motivational processes in adolescents with Attention‑Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Examines how executive function and motivation jointly contribute to difficulties in teens with ADHD.
Hart, H., Radua, J., Nakao, T., Mataix‑Cols, D., & Rubia, K. (2013).
Meta‑analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of inhibition and attention in ADHD
fMRI meta‑analysis showing consistent fronto‑striatal and fronto‑parietal differences during inhibition tasks.
Noreika, V., Falter, C. M., & Rubia, K. (2013).
Timing deficits in attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): evidence from neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies
Reviews evidence that many people with ADHD have difficulties with timing, time estimation and temporal foresight.
🎧 Sensory Processing & Arousal Regulation
Ghanizadeh, A. (2011).
Sensory processing problems in children with ADHD, a systematic review
Summarises research showing that sensory over‑responsivity and under‑responsivity are common but under‑recognised in ADHD.
Jurek, L., et al. (2025).
Sensory Processing in Individuals With Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Compares sensory profiles of people with ADHD to typical controls, showing increased sensitivity, avoidance and sensory seeking.
🌊 Emotional Processing, Temperament & Dysregulation
Shaw, P., Stringaris, A., Nigg, J., & Leibenluft, E. (2014).
Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Review proposing models of how ADHD and emotion dysregulation interact at neural and behavioural levels.
Graziano, P. A., & Garcia, A. (2016).
Attention‑deficit hyperactivity disorder and children’s emotion dysregulation: a meta‑analysis
Meta‑analysis showing that children with ADHD have significant difficulties with emotional reactivity and modulation.
Martel, M. M. (2009).
Research review: a new perspective on attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: emotion dysregulation and trait models
Argues that ADHD can be understood partly as extreme temperament and trait patterns, especially negative emotionality and low control.
Bunford, N., Evans, S. W., & Wymbs, F. (2015).
ADHD and emotion dysregulation among children and adolescents
Integrates evidence linking ADHD, emotion regulation difficulties and functional outcomes across development.