00:00 Introduction and discussion of trade media coverage
02:53 Journal article on maternal consumption of Western diet and risk for ADHD & ASD
03:30 Dr. Faraone’s editorial on family and genetic confounds in large health care studies of ADHD
05:39 The large study of maternal diet and ADHD risk in journal, Nature Metabolism
07:33 A PowerPoint Figure explaining the results of the study on maternal diet
10:18 How the study tried to control for the genetic effects of maternal ADHD on risk for ADHD in the offspring
13:00 But the biggest risk for child ADHD was not controlled in the study – mother’s ADHD
15:15 Summation of findings and Conclusions
Research Discussed in the Video
Neuroscience News.com article on Maternal Diet Influences ADHD and Autism Risk
https://neurosciencenews.com/pregnancy-siet-asd-adhd-28457/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/science
Editorial by Dr. Faraone on unmeasured confounding factors in public health research on ADHD
Faraone, S. R. (2024). Understanding environmental exposures and ADHD: a pathway forward.
Prevention Science, 25 (March 25, 2024), 337-342.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11121-024-01672-z
D. Horner et al. (2025). A western dietary pattern during pregnancy is associated with neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and adolescence. Nature Metabolism, March 3, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-025-01230-z
The study showing the degree of ADHD variation explained by current polygenic risk scores:
Agnew-Blais, J. et al. (2021). Polygenic risk and the course of ADHD from childhood to young adulthood: Findings from a nationally representative cohort. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 69(9), 1147-1156. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.12.033