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.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN people with ADHD or ADHD-affected relatives share it as an authoritative, practical talk that helped some seek diagnosis.

“It's a talk by Dr. Russell Barkley on ADHD and it's what made me finally schedule a full analysis”

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