Question: Hi Dr. Faraone. Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your time here, and your research. 
  I've been recently diagnosed at 29, it was a pretty big revaluation and a shock as well. I felt I finally understood myself. I feel like I can actually do something about my next decade. 
   
  I guess my biggest question right now is what does the future of research in ADHD hold? I guess that's a very open question. We all just want to understand it and manage it as best we can.  
  I guess a better question would be, what research do you want to see develop in the future? Is more being done on adult ADHD?
  
  And one other question I've wanted to ask. Because ADHD is genetic, could that mean that many more people could be suffering than anticipated? 
  What can we do about awareness in that case?
Answer: I could write a book about what the future might hold so I cannot respond here.  We do address that somewhat at the end of the International Consensus Statement on ADHD: [https://bit.ly/35ZVUR7](https://bit.ly/35ZVUR7).  The genetic data don't suggest that many more people could be suffering than anticipated?   We have a pretty good handle on prevalence from population studies which estimate ADHD affects about 6% of kids and 2.5% of adults.
content: Q: Hi Dr. Faraone. Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your time here, and your research. 
  I've been recently diagnosed at 29, it was a pretty big revaluation and a shock as well. I felt I finally understood myself. I feel like I can actually do something about my next decade. 
   
  I guess my biggest question right now is what does the future of research in ADHD hold? I guess that's a very open question. We all just want to understand it and manage it as best we can.  
  I guess a better question would be, what research do you want to see develop in the future? Is more being done on adult ADHD?
  
  And one other question I've wanted to ask. Because ADHD is genetic, could that mean that many more people could be suffering than anticipated? 
  What can we do about awareness in that case?
   Ans: I could write a book about what the future might hold so I cannot respond here.  We do address that somewhat at the end of the International Consensus Statement on ADHD: [https://bit.ly/35ZVUR7](https://bit.ly/35ZVUR7).  The genetic data don't suggest that many more people could be suffering than anticipated?   We have a pretty good handle on prevalence from population studies which estimate ADHD affects about 6% of kids and 2.5% of adults.