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Aja Murray

Aja Murray

Professor Aja Murray is Professor of Developmental Psychology of Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, specialising in ADHD and adolescent mental health.

Aug 26, 2026

3:03
So, um, when we're talking about, um, you know, w- w- what do we mean by kind of like ADHD? How do we define that term?
3:11
So yeah, that's a really, [chuckles] that's a really good place to start.
3:14
So I think a key term to define here is ADHD.
3:18
So ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
3:21
It's characterized by difficulties with attention, so for example, having difficulties with concentrating, tending to be quite distracted, um, and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity.
3:34
So hyperactivity relates to feeling quite restless, having difficulties with sitting still, and impulsivity relates to, um, for example, engaging in behaviors without really fully thinking them through.
3:46
We think that ADHD can be diagnosed in up to about eight percent of children and adolescents globally, but at the same time, these traits are in a continuum, so there's likely to be many more young people who are affected at what you might call like subclinical levels.

15 MINS LATER

19:23
How does this kind of relate to, um, the emotional regulation of kind of positive emotions?

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