Research Recap with Skye: Fidgeting

Research Recap with Skye: Fidgeting

From Hacking Your ADHD by William Curb

May 22, 2026 · 13 min · Episode 295

About this episode

The episode discusses a research paper on the role of fidgeting in adults with ADHD and its impact on cognitive task performance.

Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD . On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain . Today, I'm joined by Skye Watterson for our research recap series . In this series, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into what the paper says, how it was conducted, and try to find any practical takeaways . In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called A Quantitative Analysis of Fidgeting in ADHD and Its Relation to Performance and Sustained Attention on a Cognitive Task . And so, yeah, this study is investigating the functional role of fidgeting in adults with ADHD and how that affects their performance when doing tasks . Let's get into it . If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at https://HackingYourADHD.com/295 https://tinyurl.com/56rvt9fr - Unconventional Organisation Affiliate link https://tinyurl.com/y835cnrk - YouTube https://www.patreon.com/HackingYourADHD - Patreon

People in this episode

Host: William Curb

Guest: Skye Watterson

Topics covered

  • ADHD
  • fidgeting
  • cognitive performance
  • research recap
  • sustained attention

Keywords

  • ADHD
  • fidgeting
  • cognitive tasks
  • performance
  • sustained attention
  • research

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Quantitative Analysis of Fidgeting in ADHD and Its Relation to Performance and Sustained Attention on a Cognitive Task

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