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Best of 2022: Why aren’t women being diagnosed with ADHD?

Best of 2022: Why aren’t women being diagnosed with ADHD?

Science Weekly vor 3 Jahren

In this episode first broadcast in May 2022, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Jasmine Andersson about her experience of getting a late ADHD diagnosis, and asks Prof Amanda Kirby why the condition is so often missed in women and girls

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It’s estimated that 1 million women in the UK could have attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder – but according to the ADHD
Foundation, 50% to 75% of them do not know they have it. So why are
women being left behind? In this episode, first broadcast in May
2022, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Jasmine Andersson about her
experience of getting a late diagnosis, and asks Prof Amanda Kirby
why the condition is so often missed in women and girls. Help
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