Emotional Regulation for Neurodivergents

You may understand that an emotion is becoming intense and still be unable to change what happens next. Your voice becomes sharper, your thoughts lock onto one interpretation or your ability to speak disappears before you can explain what you need.

At other times, the emotion seems to arrive late. You remain productive through a difficult day, then become overwhelmed by a minor question once you are finally home.

Emotional regulation for neurodivergent adults is not about becoming calm all the time. It is about recognising what is happening, keeping enough choice over your actions and recovering without turning every strong feeling into evidence that something is wrong with you.

🧩 What Emotional Regulation Means

Emotion regulation includes the processes through which people notice, interpret, respond to and recover from emotions.

It can involve:

🫀 recognising physical and emotional signals
🏷️ identifying what the feeling may be communicating
🧠 understanding the situation accurately enough to respond
⏳ delaying an immediate action when necessary
💬 communicating a need or boundary
🛠️ changing the environment
🌱 allowing an emotion to pass without forcing it away
🤝 repairing harm when regulation was not possible in time

Regulation does not mean preventing anger, sadness, fear, excitement or frustration. Emotions provide information about needs, values, losses, threats, injustice and connection.

It also does not mean making emotions look socially acceptable while remaining overwhelmed inside.

A person can appear calm because they are regulated. They can also appear calm because they are masking, frozen, disconnected from their body or afraid of the consequences of showing distress.

The important outcome is not always visible calm. It is having enough awareness and capacity to choose a response that fits the situation and the person’s values.

⚖️ Feeling Deeply Is Not the Same as Being Dysregulated

Emotional intensity is not automatically a problem.

Strong enthusiasm may support creativity, persistence and deep engagement. Sensitivity to other people or injustice may contribute to care, insight and meaningful action. Intense joy can be energising and connecting.

An emotion becomes difficult to regulate when its speed, intensity, duration or effect reduces the person’s available choices.

This might mean:

🔥 anger rises before language is available
🌊 sadness becomes so consuming that ordinary tasks disappear
⚡ excitement leads to commitments that cannot be sustained
🔁 attention remains fixed on an upsetting interaction for hours
🧊 overwhelm produces loss of speech or withdrawal
💥 frustration leads to actions the person later regrets
🌫️ the emotion is present but cannot be identified clearly

The word dysregulation is a functional description, not a moral judgement. It does not mean the emotion is unreasonable or the person is immature.

A reaction can be understandable and still create consequences that need attention.

🧠 Why Emotional Regulation May Be Harder in Neurodivergent Adults

There is no single neurodivergent emotional system. ADHD, autism and AuDHD can affect emotional experience through several interacting pathways.

Not every person experiences each pathway, and similar patterns can also occur with trauma, anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, hormonal changes, chronic pain or other health conditions.

⚡ Emotions May Capture Attention Quickly

ADHD can involve difficulty shifting or inhibiting attention once something emotionally important has captured it.

A critical message, perceived rejection or frustrating delay may become the dominant information in awareness. Other context can temporarily become harder to access.

The person may know intellectually that the situation is complicated, yet be unable to retrieve that broader view while activated.

This can create:

🔥 rapid frustration
💬 impulsive communication
🔁 repeated analysis of the same interaction
⏰ difficulty waiting before responding
📉 a sharp drop in task access after an emotional event

The problem is not necessarily having an unusually irrational emotion. It may be difficulty moving attention, inhibiting action and holding several interpretations in mind at once.

🎧 Sensory and Cognitive Load Reduce Available Capacity

Emotion regulation uses cognitive resources. It is harder to pause, reflect and choose when those resources are already being used to filter noise, manage transitions, interpret social information or remember several tasks.

An autistic or AuDHD adult may appear to react strongly to a small event. The visible event may only be the final demand in a much larger accumulation.

The actual sequence may involve:

🎧 several hours of sensory strain
🗣️ sustained social monitoring
🔄 repeated interruptions
📋 unclear expectations
🍽️ missed food or body signals
⏳ time pressure
💬 one final request

The last request did not create the entire reaction. It arrived when little regulation capacity remained.

The article on neurodivergent overwhelm explores this accumulated load in greater depth.

🫀 Emotional Awareness May Arrive Late

Regulation is difficult when the person does not know that an emotion is building.

Interoception helps people notice signals such as muscle tension, heat, breathing changes, nausea, fatigue and internal agitation. These signals can provide early information that something needs attention.

Some neurodivergent adults notice internal changes only when they become intense. Others notice physical discomfort but cannot easily connect it to an emotion or situation.

Alexithymia can make identifying and describing feelings particularly difficult. It does not mean someone lacks emotions. The feeling may be strong while the label remains unavailable.

Instead of noticing “I am becoming anxious,” a person may notice:

🌡️ feeling too hot
🪨 pressure in the chest
🧠 thoughts becoming rigid
🔊 sounds becoming more painful
🚪 a sudden need to leave
💬 irritation without a clear reason

The exact emotion may become understandable only later.

Read Alexithymia in Neurodivergent Adults when feelings are present but difficult to name.

🔄 Executive Functioning Affects Emotional Action

Knowing what would help is different from being able to do it in the moment.

Regulation may require someone to:

🧠 remember a strategy
⏳ interrupt the current response
🔀 switch attention
📋 organise a sequence of actions
💬 find suitable words
🎯 choose a goal over an immediate impulse
🗓️ plan recovery afterward

These are executive demands.

A person may therefore understand emotional regulation very well and still lose access to their strategies when tired, overloaded or activated.

This is not proof that the strategy is useless. It may mean the strategy depends on more capacity than the person currently has.

🎭 Masking Can Replace Regulation With Suppression

Many neurodivergent adults were taught to hide emotional reactions before they were taught to understand them.

They may have learned to:

🙂 smile while confused
🤐 remain silent while angry
👁️ maintain eye contact while losing track of the conversation
🪑 stay physically still while overloaded
💬 agree before they have processed the request
🏠 release the accumulated emotion only when alone

Suppression can be protective. Showing distress may not have been safe at school, work or home.

It can also interfere with regulation when attention is directed towards hiding the emotion rather than understanding the need beneath it.

The person may appear composed until the emotional demand exceeds what suppression can contain.

🪞 Shame Can Add a Second Emotional Layer

A strong reaction is often followed by judgement:

💬 “I am ridiculous.”
💬 “I always ruin things.”
💬 “Nobody else reacts like this.”
💬 “I should have controlled myself.”

The original anger, fear or sadness is now combined with shame.

Shame increases threat and can make honest reflection more difficult. The person may defend themselves, withdraw completely or promise unrealistic change because examining the event feels unbearable.

Responsibility does not require humiliation.

A more useful response is specific:

🧩 What triggered the reaction?
🌊 What load was already present?
💥 What action affected someone else?
🤝 What repair is needed?
🛠️ What support could change the next sequence?

🎭 Different Forms of Emotional Dysregulation

Emotional dysregulation is often imagined as visible anger or an explosive outburst. Neurodivergent adults can show many different patterns.

🔥 Fast and Outward

The emotion becomes visible quickly through speech, movement or action.

This may include:

🗣️ speaking loudly or sharply
📨 sending an immediate message
🚪 leaving suddenly
💥 slamming an object
😭 crying intensely
⚡ making an impulsive decision

The emotion may also settle relatively quickly once the triggering situation changes.

🧊 Inward and Overcontrolled

Some people direct the emotional response inward.

They may:

🤐 become unusually quiet
🪞 blame themselves
🙂 remain polite while losing cognitive access
📵 stop responding to messages
🛏️ withdraw for extended periods
🌫️ experience internal panic that nobody notices

This presentation can be missed because it creates less immediate disruption for other people.

⏳ Delayed

The person remains functional during the event and reacts later.

They may complete a workday, social event or medical appointment successfully, then become distressed after reaching a safer environment.

The later trigger may appear minor because it releases emotion accumulated elsewhere.

Delayed emotion is not less real. It reflects when the system had enough safety or space to stop holding everything together.

🔁 Stuck or Repetitive

Attention may remain attached to the emotion long after the immediate event.

The person may repeatedly reconstruct a conversation, search for the exact point where things changed or imagine different responses.

This can sometimes support useful understanding. It becomes less helpful when the repetition no longer produces new information and keeps the emotional state active.

🌫️ Numb or Disconnected

Intense emotion does not always feel intense.

A person may feel blank, unreal, distant or unable to care. This can occur during overload, shutdown, dissociation, exhaustion or depression.

Emotional numbness requires context. It should not automatically be treated as regulation simply because visible distress has stopped.

🔄 The Emotional Regulation Cycle

A useful way to understand regulation is to examine the whole sequence rather than only the final reaction.

🧭 The Cue

Something happens externally or internally.

This may be criticism, uncertainty, sensory input, rejection, an interruption, pain, hunger or the memory of an earlier event.

🧠 The Interpretation

The brain assigns meaning.

The situation may be interpreted as unfair, dangerous, rejecting, confusing or impossible. This interpretation may happen rapidly and before conscious language becomes available.

🫀 The Body and Attention Respond

Muscle tension, heat, movement, nausea or pressure may increase. Attention narrows around the threat, frustration or loss.

🛡️ A Protective Action Appears

The person may argue, escape, freeze, appease, withdraw, seek reassurance or attempt to regain control.

The action often makes sense in relation to the perceived threat, even when it creates other problems.

🌧️ The Aftermath Adds New Load

There may be exhaustion, shame, conflict, unfinished work or fear of the next episode.

That aftermath can lower capacity and make the cycle easier to trigger again.

Intervention can occur at several points. Regulation does not always require changing the emotion itself. Reducing sensory input, clarifying a misunderstanding or delaying one action may be enough to change the outcome.

🛠️ What Helps During an Intense Emotional Moment

Complex insight is rarely the best starting point when capacity is already low.

The first aim is to reduce the amount of information and action the person must manage.

🎧 Reduce Incoming Load

Where possible:

🚪 leave or pause the interaction
🔕 reduce noise and notifications
💡 lower visual input
🪑 sit or change physical position
💧 drink water or address an obvious body need
📵 stop reading new messages
🗣️ ask other people to use fewer words

This is not avoiding every difficult emotion. It creates enough capacity to respond more safely.

⏳ Delay Irreversible Actions

You do not need to resolve the situation while your access to context and language is reduced.

Useful scripts include:

💬 “I am too activated to answer well. I will return to this later.”
💬 “I need time before I make a decision.”
💬 “I have understood that this matters. I cannot discuss it constructively yet.”
💬 “Please send the main point in writing.”

Pausing is most effective when you return at an agreed time. Disappearing indefinitely may protect you from the immediate emotion while increasing uncertainty for everyone else.

🫀 Identify the Level Before the Exact Emotion

When emotional labels are unavailable, begin with simpler information.

Ask:

🌡️ Is my activation rising or falling?
🔋 Do I have more or less capacity than an hour ago?
🧍 Do I need movement, pressure, stillness or distance?
🎧 Is sensory input becoming more difficult?
🚪 Do I need safety, clarity, control, rest or connection?

You do not need to distinguish perfectly between anger, fear and shame before taking a helpful first step.

🧩 Separate Facts From Immediate Meaning

Strong emotion can narrow interpretation.

Try dividing the situation into:

📌 what was directly said or done
💭 what you think it means
❓ what remains unknown
🎯 what needs to happen next

For example:

📌 “My manager asked to discuss the report tomorrow.”
💭 “I think I am about to lose my job.”
❓ “I do not yet know the purpose of the meeting.”
🎯 “I can ask whether preparation is required.”

This does not mean the feared interpretation is impossible. It prevents uncertainty from becoming certainty before more information is available.

🛠️ Choose the Smallest Useful Action

The next step may be:

📩 sending one holding message
🚪 leaving the room
🗓️ arranging a later conversation
📝 writing down the main concern
🤝 asking someone to stay nearby
🍽️ meeting a physical need
🔕 removing one source of input

Small actions are easier to access than a complete regulation plan.

🤝 Repair After Dysregulation

Sometimes a person cannot regulate before an action affects someone else.

An apology is more useful when it acknowledges impact without making the other person responsible for removing the apologiser’s shame.

A repair might include:

💬 “I was overloaded, but speaking to you that way was not acceptable.”
💬 “I left because I could not process the conversation. I should have told you I needed a pause.”
💬 “My reaction makes more sense to me now, but the impact on you still matters.”
💬 “Next time I will use the written pause message we agreed on.”

An explanation can make prevention possible. It should not become a demand that the other person accept repeated harm without change.

Repair may also involve recognising when someone else ignored a clear boundary or continued increasing demands after being asked to stop.

Regulation is relational. Responsibility can exist on more than one side.

🌱 Building Emotional Regulation Over Time

Long term regulation is less about mastering one emergency technique and more about increasing the amount of capacity and information available before a crisis.

🔋 Protect Baseline Capacity

Sleep, food, medication, pain, sensory exposure, social load and workload all affect emotional access.

These factors do not explain every emotion. They influence how much capacity is available to respond.

Someone who regularly reaches overload at the end of work may benefit more from changing the day’s demands than from finding a better breathing exercise at 7 p.m.

🗺️ Map Patterns Without Monitoring Everything

A simple record can include:

📍 situation
🎧 sensory and social load
🫀 early body signals
💭 immediate interpretation
🛡️ action
🌧️ aftermath
🛠️ what helped

The purpose is to identify repeatable patterns.

Tracking becomes counterproductive when it creates perfectionism, constant self surveillance or another task that must be completed correctly.

🏷️ Build a Personal Emotional Vocabulary

Standard feeling lists may be too abstract.

You can begin with categories that match your experience:

🔥 hot, urgent or confrontational
🧊 frozen, distant or unable to speak
🌊 flooded, tearful or unable to prioritise
⚡ energised, impulsive or unable to slow down
🌫️ foggy, detached or hard to read
🪨 heavy, withdrawn or low

Over time, more precise emotional words may become available.

The goal is not vocabulary for its own sake. Labels are useful when they improve communication or help select a response.

🧱 Change Repeatedly Dysregulating Environments

Not every regulation problem should be solved internally.

Clearer expectations, sensory adjustments, realistic scheduling and boundaries may reduce the frequency with which regulation capacity is exceeded.

The article on neurodivergent boundaries can help translate emotional and sensory limits into practical communication.

💬 Create Communication Agreements

Partners, friends and colleagues can agree on what happens when regulation drops.

An agreement might cover:

⏳ how either person requests a pause
🗓️ when the conversation will resume
📩 whether written communication is easier
🚫 which behaviours remain unacceptable
🤝 what kind of contact feels supportive
🚪 how much space is needed

These agreements work best when created during a calm period rather than invented during conflict.

🫂 Co Regulation Is Not Dependence

People often regulate partly through other people.

A calm voice, clear information, practical help or the presence of someone trusted can reduce uncertainty and help restore access to language and perspective.

Co regulation may look like:

🤫 sitting together without demanding conversation
📋 helping identify the next step
💬 confirming what is known and unknown
🎧 reducing environmental input
🕰️ reminding the person that no immediate decision is required
🤝 helping communicate a boundary

This does not mean another person becomes responsible for preventing every emotion.

Healthy co regulation includes consent, boundaries and reciprocity. A partner can be supportive without becoming the only available regulation system.

🔬 What Research Currently Supports

Emotion regulation differences are well documented in both ADHD and autism, but research uses varying definitions and measures. Adult ADHD studies consistently report greater difficulties with emotional impulsivity, emotional lability and regulation than comparison groups (Beheshti et al., 2020; Soler-Gutiérrez et al., 2023).

Autism research suggests that regulation can be affected by interacting factors including heightened emotional response, sensory processing, cognitive flexibility, social experience and alexithymia. Alexithymia is common among autistic people but is not universal, and some emotional processing differences attributed to autism may be more closely related to co-occurring alexithymia (Mazefsky et al., 2013; Kinnaird et al., 2019).

A 2026 systematic review found evidence of associations between executive functioning and emotion regulation across ADHD and autism, but the evidence for people with both autism and ADHD was particularly limited. Study methods and findings were also heterogeneous, so no single executive mechanism explains emotional regulation across neurotypes (Pozo-Rodríguez et al., 2026).

Research therefore supports taking emotional regulation difficulties seriously. It does not support the claim that all neurodivergent people have unusually intense emotions, follow one predictable pattern or need the same regulation strategy.

🧑‍⚕️ Therapy, Skills Training and Medication

Therapy may help when it is adapted to the person’s communication, sensory, executive and emotional awareness needs.

Dialectical behaviour therapy includes skills for distress tolerance, emotional awareness, interpersonal effectiveness and changing harmful action patterns. Randomised studies suggest that adapted DBT can reduce emotional regulation difficulties in some adults with ADHD and in selected autistic adult samples (Halmøy et al., 2022; Bemmouna et al., 2025).

The autism evidence remains relatively new. Some studies have specifically recruited autistic adults with severe emotion dysregulation, self harm or suicidal behaviour, so findings should not be assumed to apply equally to every autistic adult.

Cognitive behavioural approaches may also help with interpretation, flexibility and behavioural responses. They need adaptation when standard methods rely heavily on abstract emotional language, spontaneous verbal processing or exposure to situations involving genuine sensory harm.

For adults with ADHD, medication used to treat ADHD may also produce modest average improvements in emotional dysregulation. Effects appear smaller and less consistent than effects on core ADHD symptoms, and no medication is prescribed solely as a universal treatment for neurodivergent emotional regulation (Lenzi et al., 2018).

Medication decisions require an individual assessment of diagnosis, health, other conditions, side effects and treatment goals.

🚩 When Additional Support Is Important

Professional support may be useful when emotional patterns are causing repeated harm, severe distress or major loss of functioning.

Seek additional help when:

🚩 anger or impulsivity repeatedly places someone at risk
🚩 conflict is damaging important relationships
🚩 emotional crashes prevent regular work or daily care
🚩 numbness, hopelessness or loss of pleasure continues for weeks
🚩 substances, self injury or dangerous behaviour are being used to regulate
🚩 trauma reactions or panic are becoming more frequent
🚩 previous strategies no longer provide enough support

Urgent local help is important when someone may harm themselves or another person, cannot remain safe or is experiencing a severe mental health crisis.

A neurodiversity informed professional should investigate the full pattern rather than assuming every difficulty is caused by autism or ADHD.

🪞 Reflection Questions

🧭 At which point in your emotional cycle do you usually lose the most choice: noticing, interpreting, pausing, communicating or recovering?
🎧 Which sensory, executive or social demands most reliably reduce your regulation capacity?
🫀 What are your earliest physical or cognitive signs, even when the exact emotion is unclear?
🛠️ Which environments or relationships make regulation easier, and what do they provide that others do not?
🤝 What support, boundary or repair agreement would make intense moments safer and more manageable?

🌿 Conclusion: Regulation Creates Choice Without Erasing Emotion

Neurodivergent emotional regulation is not about becoming less passionate, less sensitive or permanently calm.

It is about increasing the space between an emotional signal and an action when that space is needed. Sometimes that requires an internal skill. Sometimes it requires less noise, clearer communication, food, rest, medication, a boundary or another person’s steady presence.

Emotions can be reasonable while actions still need accountability. A reaction can make sense in the context of sensory overload, ADHD impulsivity, delayed awareness or accumulated stress without making every outcome harmless.

Regulation also does not need to look calm from the outside. Leaving a room, crying, moving, asking for silence or delaying a response may be regulated choices when they protect safety and preserve the possibility of returning.

Progress is rarely a straight path towards perfect control. Capacity changes with health, environment, relationships and demands. Strategies that work on one day may be inaccessible on another.

The aim is not to eliminate emotional intensity. It is to understand the pattern accurately enough that strong emotions can coexist with dignity, communication, repair and meaningful choice.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 Is emotional dysregulation a diagnosis?

No. Emotional dysregulation is a descriptive term used across several conditions and research areas. It can refer to difficulty noticing, modifying, expressing or recovering from emotional states, but it is not a standalone diagnosis in this context.

⚡ Why do ADHD emotions sometimes feel so immediate?

ADHD may affect inhibition, attention shifting, working memory and the ability to hold several interpretations in mind during an emotional event. This can make a feeling capture attention quickly and make pausing before action more difficult.

🎭 What is the difference between regulation and suppression?

Regulation involves responding to emotion in a way that supports the situation and your goals. Suppression focuses mainly on preventing other people from seeing the emotion. Suppression may sometimes be protective, but it does not necessarily reduce internal distress.

🌫️ Can I have intense emotions and alexithymia at the same time?

Yes. Alexithymia affects identifying and describing emotions, not whether emotions exist. Someone may feel a powerful internal change while being unable to determine whether it is anger, fear, sadness, overload or a combination.

🎧 Can sensory overload cause emotional dysregulation?

Sensory overload can reduce cognitive and communication capacity, making regulation harder. It may contribute to irritability, panic, withdrawal or loss of speech, but it is one possible influence rather than the explanation for every emotional reaction.

💊 Does ADHD medication improve emotional regulation?

ADHD medication may improve emotional symptoms for some adults, particularly when attention and inhibition improve. Average effects are variable and generally smaller than effects on core ADHD symptoms. Treatment decisions require a qualified prescriber.

🧑‍⚕️ Can therapy help autistic adults regulate emotions?

Adapted therapy may help. Emerging trials support adapted DBT for some autistic adults with significant emotional dysregulation, but evidence is still developing and many studies involve selected clinical groups. Communication and sensory adaptations matter.

🚩 When should strong emotions be treated as a mental health concern?

Seek assessment when emotions are causing persistent loss of functioning, repeated harmful actions, severe relationship damage, prolonged hopelessness or safety risks. Strong emotion alone is not a disorder, but its duration and consequences may require support.

🧭 Where to Go Next

🌊 When Emotions Reach Capacity Quickly

Read Neurodivergent Emotional Overflow for a focused guide to explosive, flooded or rapidly escalating emotional states.

Continue with Understanding Neurodivergent Overwhelm when sensory, cognitive and social demands are accumulating together.

🫀 When Feelings Are Difficult to Identify

Explore Alexithymia in Neurodivergent Adults when you know something is happening internally but cannot find the emotional label.

Read Interoception and Neurodivergence for a deeper explanation of body signals, delayed awareness and emotional information.

🧩 When Autism and ADHD Interact

Use Supporting AuDHD Emotional Regulation for practical support when ADHD speed and autistic depth, sensory needs or predictability interact.

Continue with AuDHD and Emotional Regulation: What Science Says for a more research focused discussion.

🔥 When Regulation Has Become Harder Over Time

Visit the Neurodivergent Burnout Learning Hub when emotional tolerance, sensory capacity and daily functioning have declined over weeks or months.

Read Emotional Numbness vs Shutdown vs Depression when the main experience is blankness, distance or reduced access to emotion.

🧱 When Boundaries and Relationships Are Central

Read Neurodivergent Boundaries for ways to communicate limits before emotional capacity is exhausted.

🧭 When You Need a Broader Foundation

Visit the Neurodiversity Learning Hub for routes through emotional processing, sensory needs, executive functioning, identity and relationships.

📚 References

📚 Beheshti, A., Chavanon, M. L., and Christiansen, H. (2020). Emotion dysregulation in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 20(1), Article 120.

📚 Bemmouna, D., Rabot, E., Coutelle, R., Lefebvre, F., Weibel, S., and Weiner, L. (2025). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to Treat Emotion Dysregulation in Autistic Adults without Intellectual Disability: A Randomised Controlled Trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 94(4), 247–262.

📚 Cai, R. Y., Richdale, A. L., Dissanayake, C., Trollor, J., and Uljarević, M. (2019). Emotion regulation in autism: Reappraisal and suppression interactions. Autism, 23(3), 737–749.

📚 Halmøy, A., Ring, A. E., Gjestad, R., Møller, M., Ubostad, B., Lien, T., Munkhaugen, E. K., and Fredriksen, M. (2022). Dialectical behavioral therapy-based group treatment versus treatment as usual for adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A multicenter randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1), Article 738.

📚 Kinnaird, E., Stewart, C., and Tchanturia, K. (2019). Investigating alexithymia in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis. European Psychiatry, 55, 80–89.

📚 Lenzi, F., Cortese, S., Harris, J., and Masi, G. (2018). Pharmacotherapy of emotional dysregulation in adults with ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 84, 359–367.

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📚 Pozo-Rodríguez, M., Cruz, S., Conde-Pumpido-Zubizarreta, S., Carracedo, A., Tubío-Fungueiriño, M., and Fernández-Prieto, M. (2026). A systematic review on the association between executive function and emotional regulation in autism, ADHD, and autism/ADHD. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 183, Article 106570.

📚 Soler-Gutiérrez, A. M., Pérez-González, J. C., and Mayas, J. (2023). Evidence of emotion dysregulation as a core symptom of adult ADHD: A systematic review. PLOS ONE, 18(1), Article e0280131.