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ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus

7.4M views · Sep 13, 2021 · 2:18:01 · 3 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2022–2024

Andrew Huberman discusses ADHD, its biology and myths, behavioral and pharmacologic treatments, and training protocols to improve focus for people with or without ADHD. It covers dopamine and the coordination of brain networks.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN people offer it as practical focus and ADHD advice from a credentialed neuroscientist, though some treat it as only a reference.

“He's pretty well credentialed though, so I trust on average the advice is good”HN comment, 2023

What Hacker News said 5

RecommendsvedranFeb 2022

“A few more from Dr. Huberman”

Huberman on improving focus and ADHD

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A few more from Dr. Huberman: ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus - this video How to Focus to Change Your Brain - link

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RecommendsmaerF0x0Jan 2023

“He's pretty well credentialed though, so I trust on average the advice is good”

Advice on ADHD and focus from a credentialed source

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Stayfocusd chrome extension for sites that are trouble during working hours. I've started to implement the advice here: this video albeit too early to tell. He's pretty well credentialed though, so I trust on average the advice is good (but specifically for each individual YMMV) One of his best points is dont act like or prescribe yourself ADHD solutions until you have a true diagnosis by an expert. Losing focus and distractions is commonplace for all people today, not just ADHD folks.

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RecommendsStuffMasterFeb 2024

“+1 for Andrew Huberman”

Huberman on improving focus

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+1 for Andrew Huberman Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction: link ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus: this video

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Cites itabrichrDec 2022

“these are three brain areas that normally are synchronized in their activities”

Brain areas desynchronized in ADHD

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> What are the parts of the brain that become de-synchronized in the ADHD brain? >> The default mode network and the task networks become de-synchronized in the ADHD brain. > What are the three parts of the brain that become de-synchronized in the ADHD brain? >> The default mode network, the task networks, and the dopamine circuits. From this video : > An area called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex ... the posterior cingulate cortex, and ... the lateral parietal lobe ... these are three brain areas that normally are synchronized in their activities ... that's how it is in a typical person. In a person with ADHD ... these brain areas are not playing well with each other. I wonder if part of the problem might be the usage of text to speech. Did you consider scraping the transcriptions instead? e.g. with link

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Cites itcoroboSep 2023
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Just used this to clear out my watch later list without having to watch anything. Nice! Only note I have at this time is that it seemed to time out or hang or something on a long video (>2h) -- I'm guessing that there might be limitations to how much transcript you can chuck into GPT, it might be worth throwing an error of some sort in that scenario rather than the forever load E: Seen you've asked for an example to the other person mentioning this. In my case it was this video this video

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