ADHD & Eating Disorders with Dr. Jean Doak
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ADHD & Eating Disorders with Dr. Jean Doak

This week, Nikki and Pete dive into the complex and often overlooked relationship between ADHD and eating disorders. Joined by special guest Dr. Jean Doak, a professor of psychiatry and clinical director at the Center for Excellence for Eating Disorders at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the trio explores how these two conditions can intertwine and exacerbate each other.

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An Over-the-Counter Video Game for ADHD with Akili CEO Eddie Martucci
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An Over-the-Counter Video Game for ADHD with Akili CEO Eddie Martucci

We’re continuing our series on gaming and ADHD this week. So far, we’ve explored how gaming ignites creativity and can expand perspectives and horizons. But what if we told you there was a game that is designed and build expressly to aid in treatment of attention disorders? Eddie Martucci is CEO of Akili and joins us today to talk about that very game, how it works, and what it just might be able to do for you.

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Decoding the World of Games with Professor Colleen Macklin
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Decoding the World of Games with Professor Colleen Macklin

Colleen Macklin is a game designer and a Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design and author of Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure. She’s interested in how games model and reveal ideologies through systems. And, incidentally, she reports she was recently diagnosed with ADHD, which makes her doubly cool in our crowd. She joins us today to talk about games and gaming and neurodiversity.

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Eating Your ADHD with Dietitian Nicole DeMasi Malcher
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Eating Your ADHD with Dietitian Nicole DeMasi Malcher

How's your relationship with food? Do any emotional eating lately? Feeling that magnetic pull to McDonalds? You think there might be any ADHD hidden in there knocking away at you? Nicole DeMasi Malcher is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and founder of eatingwithADHD.com, where she helps people with ADHD stop binge-eating and learn to have a healthier relationship with food and body image and she's going to help us all out this week!

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