Dr. Anupriya Gogne: ADHD & executive dysfunction in the perinatal period

About this episode

Dr. Anupriya Gogne discusses ADHD and executive dysfunction in women during the perinatal period, sharing insights from her clinical experience and personal journey.

Episode 203 with Dr. Anupriya Gonge. “For mothers, the executive functioning demands keep shifting. Just as you find your rhythm, everything changes again.” Dr. Anupriya Gogne is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist who specializes in women’s mental health, She is also the Division Director of Outpatient Psychiatry at Brown University Health in Rhode Island. Over the past eight years, she has worked closely with adult and perinatal women navigating a wide range of psychiatric challenges. After her own late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, Dr. Gogne began to reframe much of what she was seeing in her clinical work — particularly in high-achieving women who had spent years feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, or misdiagnosed. This personal and professional insight led her to write the book “Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Adult Women: Special Considerations in the Perinatal Period,” which offers a clinical guide for trainees and practitioners and sheds light on the often-overlooked experiences of neurodivergent women and mothers. We discuss how ADHD often presents differently in women, especially during the perinatal period, and how executive dysfunction can be mistaken for laziness…

People in this episode

Host: Katy Weber

Guest: Dr. Anupriya Gogne

Topics covered

• ADHD
• executive dysfunction
• perinatal mental health
• women's health
• neurodiversity

Keywords

• ADHD
• executive dysfunction
• perinatal period
• women's mental health
• neurodivergent women

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Brown University Health

Books & works: Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Adult Women: Special Considerations in the Perinatal Period

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