Join the ADHD Study
Understand how your lifestyle impacts brain performance and ageing.
Connectome Health is inviting you to take part in a new ADHD Study that explores how your lifestyle and daily routines shape your brain health over time. We are recruiting both people with ADHD and healthy neurotypical controls, allowing us to directly compare how lifestyle factors influence cognitive health across both groups. As a participant, you will be among the first 50 people with ADHD to contribute to cutting-edge science and gain a unique insight into your own brain performance.
What's this study about?
The ADHD Study is exploring how everyday lifestyle habits, from sleep quality and physical activity to stress levels, affect how your brain performs over time. By recruiting people with ADHD alongside a neurotypical group, we can examine not just what lifestyle factors matter, but whether they matter differently depending on how your brain is wired.
By combining next-generation brain scanning technology with data from your wearable (such as Oura, Whoop, Apple Watch, Garmin, or Fitbit), we aim to build a much clearer picture of how lifestyle connects to cognitive health.
Instead of "one size fits all" recommendations, this study is a step toward a more personalised, preventative approach to brain health and ADHD.
Who's running the study?
Professor Simon R Shultz
Principal Investigator
Rufus Mitchell-Heggs, PhD
Co-investigator · Chief Science Officer
Anita Snowdon-Farrell, PhD
Clinical Operations Associate
Daniel Tamkin, MSc
Machine Learning Engineer
What you'll get as a participant
- A unique view of your brain in action, measured across four visits to Connectome's clinic in Soho, Central London.
- Insights into your attentional control, cognitive flexibility and working memory through a combination of brain imaging and cognitive testing.
- Access to your own brain data through the Connectome dashboard, so you can track your brain's activity over time.
- The opportunity to be part of the first 50 people helping to build a new generation of ADHD brain health tools.
- Compensation* for your time, travel, and participation.
Who can take part?
You can take part if you:
- Are aged between 25-44 and have a formal clinical diagnosis of ADHD from a licensed clinician (inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, or combined presentation).
- Have used a wearable (like Oura, Whoop, Apple Watch, Garmin, or Fitbit) consistently for three months or more.
- Wear your device while you sleep (minimum 3 months of sleep data).
- Are fluent in English.
- Have normal (or corrected-to-normal) vision and hearing.
- Can attend four in-person sessions in Soho, London, with a week in between each scan.
- Are comfortable to wear a light, non-invasive brain imaging headset (Kernel Flow 2) and complete cognitive tasks.
You will not be able to take part if you:
- Are currently taking medication for ADHD.
- Are currently pregnant.
- Have a condition that would make it difficult to complete the study tasks.
Why take part now?
There has never been a more important time to take a proactive approach to brain health. By joining this study, you are contributing to vital research that could change how we understand, measure, and protect cognitive function across a lifetime.
Whether you are curious about your own brain performance, living with ADHD, or passionate about preventative health, this is your chance to help shape the future of neuroscience and ADHD care.
Are you interested in joining the ADHD Study?
*Compensation for participation is £15 per session (£60 for 4). Additional compensation is also available for BAME participants that may require hair adaptations. We are committed to removing barriers of participation for participants that identify as Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic (BAME). As such, we offer additional compensation for the additional time and effort BAME participants may require to perform any hair adaptations. Additional remuneration will consist of £12.50 an hour per additional time spent on haircare, with a maximum of 8 additional hours (£100), in line with NIHR guidelines for hourly study participation. We are able to organise study visits to be more convenient for participants, e.g., to coincide with hair washing or salon days.
Join the ADHD Study
Understand how your lifestyle impacts brain performance and ageing.
Connectome Health is inviting you to take part in a new ADHD Study that explores how your lifestyle and daily routines shape your brain health over time. We are recruiting both people with ADHD and healthy neurotypical controls, allowing us to directly compare how lifestyle factors influence cognitive health across both groups. As a participant, you will be among the first 50 people with ADHD to contribute to cutting-edge science and gain a unique insight into your own brain performance.
What's this study about?
The ADHD Study is exploring how everyday lifestyle habits, from sleep quality and physical activity to stress levels, affect how your brain performs over time. By recruiting people with ADHD alongside a neurotypical group, we can examine not just what lifestyle factors matter, but whether they matter differently depending on how your brain is wired.
By combining next-generation brain scanning technology with data from your wearable (such as Oura, Whoop, Apple Watch, Garmin, or Fitbit), we aim to build a much clearer picture of how lifestyle connects to cognitive health.
Instead of "one size fits all" recommendations, this study is a step toward a more personalised, preventative approach to brain health and ADHD.
Who's running the study?
Professor Simon R Shultz
Principal Investigator
Rufus Mitchell-Heggs, PhD
Co-investigator · Chief Science Officer
Anita Snowdon-Farrell, PhD
Clinical Operations Associate
Daniel Tamkin, MSc
Machine Learning Engineer
What you'll get as a participant
- A unique view of your brain in action, measured across four visits to Connectome's clinic in Soho, Central London.
- Insights into your attentional control, cognitive flexibility and working memory through a combination of brain imaging and cognitive testing.
- Access to your own brain data through the Connectome dashboard, so you can track your brain's activity over time.
- The opportunity to be part of the first 50 people helping to build a new generation of ADHD brain health tools.
- Compensation* for your time, travel, and participation.
Who can take part?
You can take part if you:
- Are aged between 25-44 and have a formal clinical diagnosis of ADHD from a licensed clinician (inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, or combined presentation).
- Have used a wearable (like Oura, Whoop, Apple Watch, Garmin, or Fitbit) consistently for three months or more.
- Wear your device while you sleep (minimum 3 months of sleep data).
- Are fluent in English.
- Have normal (or corrected-to-normal) vision and hearing.
- Can attend four in-person sessions in Soho, London, with a week in between each scan.
- Are comfortable to wear a light, non-invasive brain imaging headset (Kernel Flow 2) and complete cognitive tasks.
You will not be able to take part if you:
- Are currently taking medication for ADHD.
- Are currently pregnant.
- Have a condition that would make it difficult to complete the study tasks.
Why take part now?
There has never been a more important time to take a proactive approach to brain health. By joining this study, you are contributing to vital research that could change how we understand, measure, and protect cognitive function across a lifetime.
Whether you are curious about your own brain performance, living with ADHD, or passionate about preventative health, this is your chance to help shape the future of neuroscience and ADHD care.
Are you interested in joining the ADHD Study?
*Compensation for participation is £15 per session (£60 for 4). Additional compensation is also available for BAME participants that may require hair adaptations. We are committed to removing barriers of participation for participants that identify as Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic (BAME). As such, we offer additional compensation for the additional time and effort BAME participants may require to perform any hair adaptations. Additional remuneration will consist of £12.50 an hour per additional time spent on haircare, with a maximum of 8 additional hours (£100), in line with NIHR guidelines for hourly study participation. We are able to organise study visits to be more convenient for participants, e.g., to coincide with hair washing or salon days.