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30 Essential Ideas you should know about ADHD, 1A Intro, Chronic Developmental Disability

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What it is

The first clip from Russell Barkley's 30 Essential Ideas about ADHD series, introducing ADHD as a chronic developmental disability. It is part of a lecture series on the disorder by a leading ADHD researcher.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters repeatedly recommend Barkley's lectures as the best introduction to understanding ADHD.

  • 9 people recommended it
  • 8 different months
  • 4 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I too highly recommend Russel Barkley's videos about ADHD. They taught me so much.”

    Barkley lecture series teaching that ADHD is primarily emotional.

    andai, 2019-05 · Strong recommendation · in “How I Run a Company with ADHD”

  2. “Your best resource, you may have discovered, is Russell Barkley; I cannot recommend him enough.”

    Barkley as best resource for understanding ADHD.

    zarmin, 2020-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference”

  3. “Probably the best introduction to ADHD is a 1.5 lecture by Dr. Russell Barkley, a top researcher in this area.”

    Technical, empowering, fun introductory lecture by top ADHD researcher.

    jevyjevjevs, 2021-12 · Strong recommendation · in “ADHD Accommodations Guide”

  4. “I highly recommend the first 4 parts of this playlist (at least) and other videos and writings by Dr Barkley.”

    Barkley's ADHD lecture playlist.

    mthoms, 2024-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Early humans had ADHD, scientists say after making people play game online”

  5. “His Youtube videos/lectures are extremely insightful as well”

    Russell Barkley lectures as an insightful reference on ADHD.

    Helmet, 2017-05 · Recommendation · in “How a CEO with Dyslexia and ADHD Runs His Company”

  6. “I also like Russell Barkley's lectures and books”

    Barkley's ADHD lectures.

    jaggederest, 2018-11 · Recommendation · in “Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done”

  7. “This is an invaluable resource, but is available directly on YouTube at”

    Full lecture series on YouTube in digestible playlist chunks.

    fragmede, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “30 Essential Ideas about ADHD – Dr. Russell a Barkley”

  8. “Maybe look into some of Dr Russel Barkley's lectures.”

    Barkley lectures for deeper ADHD understanding.

    triggercut, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: russell barkley, adhd, executive function, developmental disability, lecture series

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