A really powerful listen 🎧 Our ART-CARMA study participant Christian shares his story of living with ADHD and receiving a diagnosis and beginning medication as an adult. Huge thanks to Christian for sharing his experience, and to Phoebe Rocks for supporting his involvement.

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💬 “Once I understood my ADHD, and once I received acceptance instead of ongoing confusion, I was able to grow into a person I never thought I could be.” For #ADHDAwarenessMonth, Christian shares his powerful story. 🎧 Listen here 👉 youtu.be/9xCk7uUZeEQ @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social #AdultADHD

🏓 ART Team Social 2025 The ART team got together for our annual social - this year for some ping pong! It was great to spend time together outside of the office and celebrate everyone’s hard work on the ART projects over the past few months, as well as enjoy a bit of friendly competition. 🏅

The #ADHD Remote Technology Study of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Medication Adherence (ART-CARMA) team discuss their preliminary findings and attendance at the #EUNETHYDIS (the European Network for ADHD) 36th annual meeting. Read more: timespan.eu/adhd-art-car...

While the autism spectrum is now widely accepted, understanding of the ADHD continuum lags behind Professor Jonna Kuntsi writes in @bmj_latest about how we need greater awareness of the #ADHD continuum + how to best target interventions Read now: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... #ADHDAwarenessMonth

🎉 Huge congratulations to Qigang Deng, an ART PhD student, on successfully passing his viva yesterday! An incredible milestone and so well deserved.

📖 Last Tuesday we held our bimonthly ADHD Research Group Meeting and Journal Club, where we were lucky to hear two fantastic talks. Thank you to both Emma and Yuezhou for such interesting presentations!

Exciting news for the ART-transition team! Research assistant @annaredly.bsky.social has been accepted onto the DRIVE-Health Doctoral Research Programme and will be starting her PhD with the lab this fall. Congratulations Anna, we can’t wait to see how your PhD progresses 🔎

This week we are introducing our wonderful DRIVE-Health PhD Student Kanyakorn Veerakanjana. Now in the third year of her PhD, Kanyakorn is deep in her analysis of the ART-CARMA data, focusing on cardio-metabolic risk factors.

This week, @aislinnbowler.bsky.social , the ART-team post-doc, helped to run the Youth Awards at the SGDP alongside the wonderful Jared, Celestine and Nour.

Many congratulations to ART PhD student Qigang Deng for submitting his thesis last week, titled “Addressing challenges in the measurement of ADHD symptoms: the relative age effect and remote measurement technology.” What a huge achievement, well done Qigang 👏

This week we are introducing @phoeberocks.bsky.social, one of the fantastic Research Assistants on the ART-CARMA study.

📖 Last Thursday we had our bimonthly ADHD Research Group Meeting and Journal Club, and saw brilliant talks from PhD students @alicebarnes.bsky.social and Kanyakorn Veerakanjana! Great job to both students, and thank you for such an engaging session!

This week, we're introducing one of the Research Assistants on the ART-CARMA team, @hannahkmarriott.bsky.social! Hannah works hard to ensure that data collection is running seamlessly, supporting participants through their 12-month study period and preparing data for analyses. Thanks Hannah 🙏

📝 Just published! We have a new paper out in #ChildAndAdolescentMentalHealth on our service model: how clinicians & researchers at the Lab are using digital innovations to meet urgent needs in #CAMHS ⬇️ The paper: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... The blog: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-pap...

<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library

As digital mental health research and technology continue to grow, a systematic approach to quickly and safely translating digital innovation into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) ...

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📊 Great job to ART-CARMA PhD student Kanyakorn Veerakanjana for her poster at the DRIVE-Health Summer Symposium!

We're introducing one of the key members of the ART team, @alicebarnes.bsky.social! As the ART-CARMA study coordinator and a PhD student, Alice ensures the study is running smoothly as well as conducts her own analyses. It's been amazing to see all of the exciting results from her hard work 🎉

Well done to Alice Barnes and Kanyakorn Veerakanjana, our 3rd year PhD students working on ART-CARMA, for their SGDP center talks today! It was great to hear such interesting insights from early qualitative and quantitative ART-CARMA data - watch this space 👀

📙 We had our bimonthly ADHD Research Group & Journal Club yesterday. @amandinesenequier.bsky.social presented her first PhD project on ADHD symptoms and physical activity in a UK birth cohort. @annaredly.bsky.social led Journal Club on stimulant use in menstruating women with ADHD. Thank you both!

✏️ Check out our wonderful PhD student @alicebarnes.bsky.social's reflections on the 10th ADHD World Congress in Prague last week! She presented a poster on data from ART-CARMA, our remote monitoring study of adults with ADHD – great to hear what a good experience it was.

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KCL PhD student Alice Barnes shares her reflections on the 10th (but her first) #ADHD World Congress in Prague last week and presenting initial ART-CARMA data. Check out her blog post: timespan.eu/reflections-... @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social #ADHDresearch

⭐Our ART-CARMA team is looking forward to presenting findings from the project at the 10th ADHD World Congress of ADHD in Prague this week.

For this week's "Transition Tuesday", we are introducing one of our lovely research assistants, @katiecr.bsky.social 👋

🎓 Huge congratulations to our brilliant post-doc @aislinnbowler.bsky.social on graduating with her PhD from Birkbeck! Her research explored early childhood motor skills and genetic and phenotypic associations with later neurodevelopmental, cognitive, and psychiatric outcomes.

Last week, @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social researchers Professor Jonna Kuntsi and Alice Barnes, as well as participants Rachel and Christian presented research and experiences with #ADHD medication at TIMESPAN's "ADHD, obesity & cardiometabolic health" event.

🧠 it's a wrap already! ▪️findings from TIMESPAN research ▪️panel discussion on stopping #ADHD meds ▪️ keynote on ADHD in our prisons: experiences of a prison counsellor Huge thank you to everyone for joining this first public engagement event 🙏 @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social

🧠 From epidemiology to AI Day 2 of our #TIMESPAN GA covered research updates, remote monitoring, and predictive modelling. On to tomorrow’s Public Engagement Event! 🚀 #ADHD #CardiometabolicHealth #HorizonEU

Hi from London! 👋🎡 Our 5th GA day 1 just finished. 👉masterclass (Dr Folarin & @alicebarnes.bsky.social on @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social 👉keynote lecture by Prof. Dobson 👉Flash talks by our ECS! We're off to @sciencerallye.bsky.social now #younginvestigator #pharmacoepi #mhealth #adhdresearch

🎉For this weeks 'Transition Tuesday' we are giving a huge well done to our post-doc & study coordinator @aislinnbowler.bsky.social for her SGDP talk on integrating PPI into ART-transition. This talk drew on our ART-pilot study, focus groups, and ongoing PPI panel. Great to see the impact PPI has!

For this week's "Transition Tuesday", we are introducing one of our research assistants, @annaredly.bsky.social 👋 As a research assistant, she helps ensure that ART-transition is running smoothly day-to-day. Outside of work, she loves to discover new places in London and enjoy the sun ☀️

📣 New publication from our ART pilot study! Hayley Denyer and colleagues investigate what remote monitoring technology - using smartphones and wearables - can tell us about sleep differences between individuals with and without ADHD. Read the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A 10-week remote monitoring study of sleep features and their variability in individuals with and without ADHD - BMC Psychiatry

Background People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often report disturbed sleep, as well as co-occurring symptoms of anxiety and depression. Yet studies employing objective assessm...

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The ART team really enjoyed the "Hidden in Plain Sight" conference on #ADHD in girls and women at the University of Nottingham yesterday! So many interesting and important insights from clinicians, researchers and women with lived experience.