ADHD with Confidence | Overcome Anxiety & Self-Doubt, Life & ADHD Coach, ADHD in Women
Jul 28, 2026 · 49 min · 12 segments
Sleep can feel impossible when you have ADHD—especially if racing thoughts, inconsistent routines, or late-night bursts of energy keep you awake. In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Aric Prather, a…
Kelsey SpronkHost
I know that my audience and myself are very excited to learn all about how we can improve our sleep and then improve our well-being.
But before we get started into that, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and the research that you do?
So I am a professor here in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
And, you know, over the last, I don't know, two decades, we've kind of been running a research program around sleep and how it's related to stress and what that means for our health, both our mental health, but also we've done a lot of work on kind of physical health.
So my interest has been in the immune system and trying to understand how when people don't get sleep, The sleep they need, like, do they get sick? You know, how does that affect different kind of biological processes that might be related to aging and those sorts of things? But then we've also become, you know, more and more interested in interventions and how we can get people sleeping better.
And so kind of in the other part of my life, I help direct clinic here at UCSF focused on treating people with insomnia using kind of the gold standard kind of first line treatment, which is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, which is, you know, amazing.
And so and then, yeah, the rest of my time is trying to talk to people about sleep and getting them excited about kind of how important it is for kind of our health and well-being.
I know that my audience and myself are very excited to learn all about how we can improve our sleep and then improve our well-being.
But before we get started into that, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself and the research that you do?
So I am a professor here in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
And, you know, over the last, I don't know, two decades, we've kind of been running a research program around sleep and how it's related to stress and what that means for our health, both our mental health, but also we've done a lot of work on kind of physical health.
So my interest has been in the immune system and trying to understand how when people don't get sleep, The sleep they need, like, do they get sick? You know, how does that affect different kind of biological processes that might be related to aging and those sorts of things? But then we've also become, you know, more and more interested in interventions and how we can get people sleeping better.
And so kind of in the other part of my life, I help direct clinic here at UCSF focused on treating people with insomnia using kind of the gold standard kind of first line treatment, which is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, which is, you know, amazing.
And so and then, yeah, the rest of my time is trying to talk to people about sleep and getting them excited about kind of how important it is for kind of our health and well-being.
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