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This is how you treat ADHD based off science, Dr Russell Barkley part of 2012 Burnett Lecture

A short excerpt from Dr Russell Barkley's 2012 Burnett Lecture on ADHD, focused on treatment. He argues ADHD is a disorder of executive function and self-regulation, and that environments should be designed to compensate.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN people with ADHD or ADHD-affected relatives share it as an authoritative, practical talk that helped some seek diagnosis.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Adhd Videos
Topic
adhd and executive function
Format
lecture
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
10
HN mentions in dataset
17
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Lists, logs, writing, post-its, Todo lists etcetcetc. I tend to forget stuff even while I'm doing it, so it helps a million if what I'm doing is written on a Post-It right in front of me. Also, to keep track of tasks, problems, todos etc, …

    azeirah on Hacker News · 2019-05
    In Ask HN: Developers with ADHD/ADD, how do you cope?

  • As a 33 year old who was just diagnosed with ADHD, a few minutes into reading this I knew exactly where it was going. For me, it was when I watched Dr. Russell Barkley's talk[1] and halfway through, it brought me to tears. No one …

    ncfausti on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In Why I Procrastinate (2019)

  • This 13 min video [1] also by Dr Russell Barkley is something of a summery, but the longer one is absolutely worth watching. 1: [VIDEO]

    joshuak on Hacker News · 2015-05
    In Entrepreneurial Tendencies Among People with ADHD

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