2025-07-31
42 分钟Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials,
where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health,
physical health, and performance.
I'm Andrew Huberman,
and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
Today, we are going to talk all about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
Now, just a quick reminder that anytime we discuss a psychiatric disorder,
it's important that we remember that all of us have the temptation to self-diagnose or to diagnose others.
The clear and real diagnosis of ADHD really should be carried out by a psychiatrist,
a physician, or a very well-trained clinical psychologist.
So right now, the current estimates are that about one in 10 children and probably more have ADHD.
Now, fortunately, about half of those will resolve with proper treatment,
but the other half typically don't.
The other thing that we are seeing a lot nowadays is increased levels of ADHD in adults.
For sake of today's discussion, attention, focus, and concentration are essentially the same thing.
So people with ADHD have trouble holding their attention.
What is attention?
Well, attention is perception.
It's how we are perceiving the sensory world.
For instance, right now you're hearing sound waves, you are seeing things,