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28/11/2025

WOMEN WITH ADHD CAN EXPERIENCE PERIMENOPAUSE UP TO 10 YEARS EARLIER

“Women with ADHD have higher prevalence of severe perimenopausal symptoms. These symptoms present at an earlier age than among women without ADHD, indicating an earlier onset age of perimenopause in ADHD.”

👉 ://https://lnkd.in/eQKfmQrr

I felt quite emotional reading this research that was recently published. To hear from and meet, so many women that have struggled to get the right help, experiencing severe symptoms and often very real emotional and cognitive challenges. Being told they are to young for it to be related to their hormones and perimenopause.

Because where do you go from there?

Many have turned to private specialists but even so finding one that has also been trained in the relationship between neurodivergent conditions and hormones is not common.

And for those that don’t have that privilege?

Please share, please have this on your radar, whether you are a clinician, a manager at work, or going through perimenopause yourself.

It is quite heartbreaking to know there are women out there blaming themselves for not being able to cope ‘like everybody else’ and without the support of healthcare professionals to explain otherwise.

The impact of the hormonal shift on our brains, on top of the co-occuring stressors and uneven load that women are carrying at this time is very real. And has NOTHING to do with the person ‘not coping’ and everything to do with biological changes and systemic inequalities.

26/11/2025

20/11/2025

AUTISM & THE BRAIN 🧠

One of the core parts of my work is helping families understand that Autism is not a behavioral issue it is a neurodevelopmental condition with clear differences in how the brain processes information.
The more we understand the brain, the more compassion we build for the child.

Here’s how research explains the areas typically involved:

🔸 Frontal Lobe
Executive functions, emotional regulation, social cognition.
Studies show differences in connectivity here, affecting flexible thinking, planning, and reading social cues.

🔸 Temporal Lobe
Language, voice processing, and social perception.
Research shows many autistic individuals process tone, speech, and facial expressions differently.

🔸 Parietal Lobe
Sensory integration and body awareness.
Differences here can contribute to sensory sensitivity, coordination challenges, and imitation difficulties.

🔸 Occipital Lobe
Visual processing.
Many autistic people show strong detail-focused processing of unique strength.

🔸 Cerebellum
Motor coordination, timing, and procedural learning.
Studies have repeatedly shown structural and functional differences here.

🔸 Limbic System
Emotional processing and memory.
Variations in this network can influence how emotions are felt, expressed, and regulated.

I use this brain-behavior mapping to create intervention plans that are:
✔ Individualized
✔ Strength-based
✔ Sensory-aware
✔ Emotion-focused
✔ Parent-inclusive

My goal is always to translate science into simple language so families feel informed, empowered, and confident in supporting their child.

✨ Neurodiversity is not a limitation it’s a different wiring.
✨ When families understand why their child responds differently, the entire journey becomes easier, more empathetic, and more hopeful.

20/11/2025

AUTISM & THE BRAIN 🧠

One of the core parts of my work is helping families understand that Autism is not a behavioral issue it is a neurodevelopmental condition with clear differences in how the brain processes information.
The more we understand the brain, the more compassion we build for the child.

Here’s how research explains the areas typically involved:

🔸 Frontal Lobe
Executive functions, emotional regulation, social cognition.
Studies show differences in connectivity here, affecting flexible thinking, planning, and reading social cues.

🔸 Temporal Lobe
Language, voice processing, and social perception.
Research shows many autistic individuals process tone, speech, and facial expressions differently.

🔸 Parietal Lobe
Sensory integration and body awareness.
Differences here can contribute to sensory sensitivity, coordination challenges, and imitation difficulties.

🔸 Occipital Lobe
Visual processing.
Many autistic people show strong detail-focused processing of unique strength.

🔸 Cerebellum
Motor coordination, timing, and procedural learning.
Studies have repeatedly shown structural and functional differences here.

🔸 Limbic System
Emotional processing and memory.
Variations in this network can influence how emotions are felt, expressed, and regulated.

💛 What this means in my practice as a Neuro-psychologist:
I use this brain-behavior mapping to create intervention plans that are:
✔ Individualized
✔ Strength-based
✔ Sensory-aware
✔ Emotion-focused
✔ Parent-inclusive

My goal is always to translate science into simple language so families feel informed, empowered, and confident in supporting their child.

✨ Neurodiversity is not a limitation it’s a different wiring.
✨ When families understand why their child responds differently, the entire journey becomes easier, more empathetic, and more hopeful.