06/04/2026
PLEASE WATCH! This is such an important reshare!
Here’s the caption from the OG post. 👇
Best of Nutrimind 2025: #2 🍓👇
First posted February 6th, it’s our 2nd most viewed reel this year with 530k views!
One of my very best friends (.curiosities ) teamed up with me to share about the research on the genetic basis of ADHD. Let me just say… I’m so grateful for him (and his partner ) for the time and care they’ve shown me. See you in person next year?? 👀
OG caption from the infographic: ⬇️
Can childhood trauma cause ADHD? 🤔
We’ve both gotten lots of questions on this topic, so .curiosities and I teamed up to bring you the real research!
Even though ADHDers are more likely to have childhood trauma, twin studies show that childhood trauma is NOT associated with ADHD diagnosis [PMID:29775871], but it IS associated with ADHD severity [PMID:27376862].
I.e: ADHD isn’t caused by bad parenting, hypersensitivity to the environment, etc. It’s mainly caused by our genetic makeup, and the environment influences our experience of those gene variations (though yes, certain events like a head trauma can cause it).
Dr. Gabor Mate is a fantastic trauma specialist, but he is not an expert on ADHD. His theory that we don’t have a single gene that unifies every single ADHDer is short-sighted and doesn’t provide context. For example, T1D, a chronic disease universally known to not be caused by a person’s behaviors (i.e. genetic) does not have a gene variation that every T1D person has.
In the same way, there are multiple gene variations associated with ADHD, but not every person with ADHD has them.