The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
Why ADHD Brains Forget What They Just Learned
25 minutes Posted Mar 18, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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Presented by Understood.org Many adults with ADHD feel like they have a bad memory. You learn something in a meeting or training session, but a few days later it feels like the information has disappeared. In this episode of ADHD Skills Lab, Skye and Robbie break down research on memory and ADHD. They explore how information gets encoded into long-term memory and why this stage of learning often breaks down for ADHD brains. The discussion covers a major meta-analysis on effective learning tec...