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ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 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 recommends it

HN people offer it as practical focus and ADHD advice from a credentialed neuroscientist, though some treat it as only a reference.

people recommended it
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separate months
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discussed on HN
2022–2024
“He's pretty well credentialed though, so I trust on average the advice is good”
— maerF0x0, Jan 2023, in “How do ADHD people cope on here?”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

StuffMasterFeb 2024Recommends

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

in “Stop postponing things by embracing the mess” · View on HN

maerF0x0Jan 2023Recommends

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.

in “How do ADHD people cope on here?” · View on HN

vedranFeb 2022Recommends

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

in “Ask HN: Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?” · View on HN

coroboSep 2023Cites it

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

in “Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator” · View on HN

abrichrDec 2022Cites it

> 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]

in “Show HN: Factual AI Q&A – Answers based on Huberman Lab transcripts” · View on HN

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Mental health & neurodiversityNeuroscience & the brainadhdfocusdopamineneurosciencehuberman