Recently, King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London launched a project called the Measuring Adult ADHD and Menstruation (MAAM) study. This is the first of its kind to officially investigate “whether menstrual cycle hormonal changes make symptoms worse for women with ADHD”.
If you think it sounds a little late to address that often-reported connection, well, researchers agree with you. They say that ADHD among women is often “overlooked” in studies about the condition.
And in May, Helen Minnis, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Glasgow, released a study which opened by saying, “It is now well recognised that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in females has been historically underrec...
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