SciShow Psych: Where Are All the Women with ADHD?

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: For a long time, most people saw ADHD as “a boy thing.” Today, that mindset has started to shift, but even now, studies report that males get diagnosed significantly more often than females. So, what’s going on? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20183650 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Troy_Visser/publication/41563858_Why_Is_There_a_Gender_Gap_in_Children_Presenting_for_Attention_DeficitHyperactivity_Disorder_Services/links/02e7e52142349b16ec000000.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20385342 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3616481/ https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-13-298 https://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/adhd https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17177011 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178118317347 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18416665 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/adhd-is-different-for-women/381158/ https://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/men-women-and-a-d-h-d/ https://www.additudemag.com/women-hormones-and-adhd/ https://www.additudemag.com/puberty-and-adhd-symptoms-teens/ https://www.health.com/health/condition-article/0,,20283301,00.html https://chadd.org/for-adults/women-and-girls/ https://www.additudemag.com/download/adhd-in-women-test-and-symptom-checklist/?src=embed_link http://www.addvance.com/about/quinn.html https://chadd.org/attention-article/the-secret-lives-of-girls-with-adhd/ https://psychcentral.com/lib/gender-differences-in-adhd/ https://www.additudemag.com/gender-differences-in-adhd-women-vs-men/ https://adhd-institute.com/burden-of-adhd/epidemiology/gender/


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