You, sir, are a very special soul ❤. I would like to thank you for your dedication and diligence in helping others understand what has ruined many childhoods,educations,relationships and ultimately lives. Manners,kindness and prayers 😊
Thank you Russell! As an honours year psychology student I am blown away by many ‘qualified’ individuals sheer absence of knowledge on the topic of ADHD. Your work has significantly impacted me both in my personal world, and also my future career aspirations. Much appreciated - All the best! 🇦🇺
These are the ones I subscribed for! I was recently diagnosed with adhd and took a deep dive into learning everything I could. The internet is full of people talking about it but there's nothing to back anything they are saying. And then there was you. Reading scientific research papers, commenting on their flaws and merits and making sure we could read them ourselves if we found them interesting. It was much better than anything I could have hoped for ❤
These research updates are great, I’m a scientist with adhd and dyslexia and I don’t have enough extra spoons to keep up on the adhd research coming out and this is always a great shortcut to getting the information! I really appreciate it! I wish someone did these for stem cell research every week!
I almost always watch these updates, so thank you! I'm a scientist with very recently diagnosed inattentive ADHD, so this format appeals to me even though it is maybe objectively not as exciting as other videos.
I am in the UK, I have a prescription for 30g cannabis per month to treat ADHD. I can’t actually get any stimulant medication for over 6 months due to national shortages.
Hi Russel, I thoroughly enjoy your research updates. I like them more than the other content. It’s like having a personal research assistant for my diagnosis. I have a scientific background but not in your field and going through pubmed when just diagnosed was confusing sometimes as I’m unsure when a paper would be a robust piece of research. I can qualify the statistical analysis of data, but not the quality of the data so much and the reasoning behind the hypotheses. If it were up to me I’d like to see a 10 min piece on all weird papers out there haha. Thanks for the hard work, it is very much appreciated
These are some of my favorite videos of yours. Partly because of the bite-sized length of the videos, partly because I like hearing about new things, and also your dad jokes are fun
Warning in the end! Thank you for your service, Sir! I only recently disovered my ADD, and i am autistic. As a MD myself, not working in the field, i may suggest another study topic. My eyesight is very good, about 125% with 62y, no glasses. Once, i was participating in a study using Metoclopramide iv. That compound blocks dopaminerg pathways. The side effects have been horrific. One of the side effects was blurring the eyesight. Turns out, the puzzle areas in the retina are switched by dopamin. That system broke down, and i wasnt able to distinguish a duck from a goose in a distance of 3m. Couldnt drive, of course, for about 4 weeks. First: May ADHD people have a better eyesight? Second: People with ADHD, please, stay away from Metoclopramid or the like dopaminantagonists! That is a poison for us! 🥵
I appreciate these updates. I'm newly diagnosed with adhd & I can only watch about 10 minutes of video at a time before my mind wanders. So I go back to where I leave off to finish watching them. Very frustrating but until I learn how to manage this, it's what I do. Diet does play a roll in mental health. I've been researching Dr Chris Palmer & Dr Georgia Ede & Dr Caroline Leaf for several years now & they're actually how I came to realize I had neurological problems that I needed to see my Dr about. My brother is the one who told me I had adhd & to specifically ask my Dr about it. You are the expert & I'm learning so much from your videos, even though it's hit by bit. Thank you so much.
You might try doing this when trying to watch a long video. I have to do this and I actually seem to pay more attention to what I am listening to. I don't watch the video, per se, even if there are slides. I start the video on my tablet and then go to another website to say online window shop. I keep my hands busy so to speak...I don't read descriptions but look at the pictures and collect options in my cart, to look at later when I can read the descriptions. If I notice while listening to the videos, that I am trying to read and listen at the same time...doesn't usually work, I then choose which one do I want to do. Sometimes just product searching is boring so listening to something like a video or podcast is good. I find I can get through the 1hr+ vids while doing the product searches and then reading descriptions, etc at other times to narrow down the selection/choice, etc. Especially if just price comparison shopping...listening to vid is good for that type of task. Some ppl like to do crafts or knitting...being able to concentrate better if their hands are busy. Others do more active activities like washing dishes or folding laundry. I find myself personally getting off vid topic when say it is time to put the clothes away. But everybody has different hacks. It is great that you already figured out to 'chunk it'...taking little chunks at a time...many ADHD ppl don't seem to figure that out. They want to vids to be made into those bite size pieces for them...but in actuality the world at large is made for and by neurotypical folks and those of us who aren't typical have to find ways to do things that work for us given the world around us. Another example, the world was created by and for those ppl who sleep at night and are awake during daytime hours. My natural rhythm is to be awake at night and asleep part of the daylight hours. (In college, no matter how hard I tried to write a paper in morning or even afternoon hours, it never worked...I was always more awake with ideas flowing between midnight to 3am. Didn't really understand it but went with scheduling later classes, work schedules, etc to 'lean into it' since no matter what happened the 12am to 3am time frame were the best hours. After college, the rude awakening of the 'real world' and attempting to mold myself into it. During periods of unemployment, always reverting back to the night owl schedule. The older I got, the harder it was for time changes and keeping myself molded to the real world. At a sleep dr appt, it was there that I finally understood that my natural rhythm wasn't made to fit within real world and if I wanted to continue to try to mold myself (like for having a first shift work schedule) that the dr would need to give me rx to sleep at night and rx to wake me up in the morning and attempt to keep me awake during day. Since I wasn't working at the time, it was far easier to just lean into my natural rhythms. Making appointments and/or seeing friends daytime...is more difficult but on a day to day basis....going to sleep at 5am and getting up at 2pm is easier for me...scheduling everything I need to do for after 3pm...is what I personally have to do. Makes for possibly waiting more time for a dr appt to be available...unless I want to schedule it at a normal time when I'm normally sleeping...done it but I wasn't quite with it for the appt...no matter how much caffeine I took. (Had I realized that career choice would largely depend on when I was naturally awake...I would not have had much choice. Not alot of careers that work nights that require advanced degrees...(before remote working became an option). I would have gotten bored with all those jobs where you don't use your mind...as it I was bored within a few years of the jobs that I had gotten with an advanced degree. Sorry I got off tangent..
Dr. Barkley, thank you so much for all that you do, particularly your research updates. ❤ Your channel and other online lectures have helped educate me and my family, and I share your videos widely.
I love your research roundups! I’d be far more tempted to go read studies myself (and get caught in a rabbit hole tangle. I know from experience) without them. The commentary on them is so helpful too :)
This sounds a bit strange, but I often find these videos depressing. Even though I am diagnosed and the drugs have helped enormously, I still see my behaviour and catastrophes as a moral failing. I tried everything to make myself into a good person instead of a total loser. It was only after I got run over and had an extreme emotional reaction to it that I came into contact with real doctors instead of all the charlatans that had conned me into giving them 000s of Euros to make me a successful person. The depression lifts when I move another step towards accepting that this is a feature of my brain and I could not cure it with discipline and effort. I don't have to care whether anyone else believes me, it is my private knowledge that helps free me from shame. My Dad had it too. I feel so sad for him --- of course, he was never diagnosed. I have a lump in my throat writing this. If I can feel that much compassion for him (he's been dead for 20 years) why not the same for me and my fellow ADHD'ers?
It's so depressing to think about what life could have been for us. "But you have so much potential! If you would just..." I was first diagnosed in '79, but back then no one really understood the ins and outs and comorbidities of it all. My childhood was so miserable that it kept me from having children because I didn't want to inflict that pain on anyone else, since 'whatever' is wrong with me is obviously genetic. My favorite person, my uncle, also died without knowing what was 'wrong' with him. He was the only person who was ever really kind to me as a child. He couldn't help, of course, but he ~understood~. Our brains worked the same way. Yesterday I learned about Dyspraxia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia. My mother cried, but at least now we understand why the years of tutoring for dyslexia didn't help. Turns out that I'm everything but dyslexic. As sad as they make me, what I love about thse videos is the hope that other kids won't have to go through what we went through. And now I'm crying, so I'm going to wish both of us a happy weekend and go outside and play in the dirt 😊
I can see the potential for gut biome differences in those with ASD and the need to investigate the dietary variations in those with ASD as noted in the study conclusions. Some children with ASD have very restrictive likes with regard to taste and texture of food while others can lean completely differently exceeding the "typical NT child".
Thanks again for keeping us informed!! Would you be interested in looking at a recent study regarding lectins and microbiota composition in adhd children? It's interesting to see there weren't any major differences in gut biome composition in adhd vs siblings. Of course the study i'm referring to is only 58 children so it's not going to carry much weight on its own. The title is " The Impact of Integrating a Low-Lectin Diet with Traditional ADHD Treatments on Gut Microbiota Composition and Symptom Improvement in Children - A Cohort Study"
I have a friend with quite severe symptoms of ADHD and his sleep problems start if he doesn't consume cannabis weekly or biweekly. Now at this point I don't know if that's withdrawal, or his sleep problems need some kind of relaxing drugs.
Good evening Dr Barkley, do you plan on putting a list of “good practices” to implement in everyday life with adhd ? (Based on meta analysis, as to keep only the stuff that is proven to work)
Hi Russel. I am curious to know what you think about SSRIs. I am very slowly coming off Escitalopram (took 10mg for just over a year and tapering over months). The withdrawal has been brutal because the Ritalin slow release has stopped working since I reduced my dose of Escitalopram. Is this a coincidence? Or a temporary effect?
Russell did you check out Michael segal m.d on hypokalemic sensory over stimulation. I have had a history of seizures have sensory issues and lidocaine is hit and miss on me also my son? What's your thoughts on this more severe type of adhd?
Hello Dr. Barkley, I am commenting from Iran. Can you recommend or review a book series suitable for adults with adhd? I read your books and they helped me a lot.
Russel I tried adhd medication for 3 years on and off but everyone I try just makes me angry and anxious. I’m productive but I feel bad. (I have Tourette’s aswell) Is it a bad idea to give up with medication and try other strategies?
Hello Dr! I'm 23 and i have ADHD and i also have DMD, so my doctor told me stimulants might be a problem for me because of DMD. is there anything that can be less risky that also improve my ADHD?
Hiya Russ! I'm a PhD student with ADHD. I'm in the humanities, though, so I do not have the time to keep up with ADHD research on my own. These research updates are a fantastic service (like others in the comments have pointed out already); I'm the only one in my bio-family that has been diagnosed with ADHD (at the age of 31), but the rest of my family seems extremely ADHD now that we know what to look out for. These reviews are making a difference for us, not least for my siblings' children. Thank you for sharing your expertise and training with us!
The research updates are an incredible service. Can't believe these videos are free.
You hush, don’t give Russ any ideas… 😫
You, sir, are a very special soul ❤. I would like to thank you for your dedication and diligence in helping others understand what has ruined many childhoods,educations,relationships and ultimately lives. Manners,kindness and prayers 😊
Thank you Russell!
As an honours year psychology student I am blown away by many ‘qualified’ individuals sheer absence of knowledge on the topic of ADHD.
Your work has significantly impacted me both in my personal world, and also my future career aspirations.
Much appreciated - All the best! 🇦🇺
These are the ones I subscribed for! I was recently diagnosed with adhd and took a deep dive into learning everything I could. The internet is full of people talking about it but there's nothing to back anything they are saying. And then there was you. Reading scientific research papers, commenting on their flaws and merits and making sure we could read them ourselves if we found them interesting. It was much better than anything I could have hoped for ❤
These research updates are great, I’m a scientist with adhd and dyslexia and I don’t have enough extra spoons to keep up on the adhd research coming out and this is always a great shortcut to getting the information! I really appreciate it! I wish someone did these for stem cell research every week!
They should be done on a lot of other subjects. It would be great. 🙂
❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏thank you
My autistic gut microbiome appreciated this from my duodenum to my colon
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Your insights to current research is the best!!
I almost always watch these updates, so thank you! I'm a scientist with very recently diagnosed inattentive ADHD, so this format appeals to me even though it is maybe objectively not as exciting as other videos.
I am in the UK, I have a prescription for 30g cannabis per month to treat ADHD. I can’t actually get any stimulant medication for over 6 months due to national shortages.
These are great. Thanks so much Dr. Barkley
I love the research updates. It's something we can't do on our own
Thanks
What? These are SO relevant! You other videos are very fine too - but knowledge can change at any time. This is so important.
Hi Russel, I thoroughly enjoy your research updates. I like them more than the other content.
It’s like having a personal research assistant for my diagnosis.
I have a scientific background but not in your field and going through pubmed when just diagnosed was confusing sometimes as I’m unsure when a paper would be a robust piece of research. I can qualify the statistical analysis of data, but not the quality of the data so much and the reasoning behind the hypotheses.
If it were up to me I’d like to see a 10 min piece on all weird papers out there haha. Thanks for the hard work, it is very much appreciated
I’m a fan of the research reviews!
These are some of my favorite videos of yours. Partly because of the bite-sized length of the videos, partly because I like hearing about new things, and also your dad jokes are fun
Thanks!
very good
the best part of the chanel contents
thank you dr Barkley❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for making it so much easier for a working clinician like me to have up-to-date information on ADHD.
Warning in the end! Thank you for your service, Sir! I only recently disovered my ADD, and i am autistic. As a MD myself, not working in the field, i may suggest another study topic. My eyesight is very good, about 125% with 62y, no glasses. Once, i was participating in a study using Metoclopramide iv. That compound blocks dopaminerg pathways. The side effects have been horrific. One of the side effects was blurring the eyesight. Turns out, the puzzle areas in the retina are switched by dopamin. That system broke down, and i wasnt able to distinguish a duck from a goose in a distance of 3m. Couldnt drive, of course, for about 4 weeks. First: May ADHD people have a better eyesight? Second: People with ADHD, please, stay away from Metoclopramid or the like dopaminantagonists! That is a poison for us! 🥵
Maybe they aren't super popular but I do check on these every week and I love and appreciate them so much!! Thanks ADHDad!
Bravo 👏 and thank you
i really appreciate the research upgrade line of your videos!
Thanks Russell as always. Your insights continue to support understanding of my own ADHD, my children and to better support students that I teach.
Oh I love these roundups, they’re uniquely suited to staying up to date on an area with such a rapid pace of developing study!
Really interesting studies this time!
especially the last 2
Thank YOU!
I appreciate these updates. I'm newly diagnosed with adhd & I can only watch about 10 minutes of video at a time before my mind wanders. So I go back to where I leave off to finish watching them. Very frustrating but until I learn how to manage this, it's what I do. Diet does play a roll in mental health. I've been researching Dr Chris Palmer & Dr Georgia Ede & Dr Caroline Leaf for several years now & they're actually how I came to realize I had neurological problems that I needed to see my Dr about. My brother is the one who told me I had adhd & to specifically ask my Dr about it. You are the expert & I'm learning so much from your videos, even though it's hit by bit. Thank you so much.
You might try doing this when trying to watch a long video. I have to do this and I actually seem to pay more attention to what I am listening to. I don't watch the video, per se, even if there are slides. I start the video on my tablet and then go to another website to say online window shop. I keep my hands busy so to speak...I don't read descriptions but look at the pictures and collect options in my cart, to look at later when I can read the descriptions. If I notice while listening to the videos, that I am trying to read and listen at the same time...doesn't usually work, I then choose which one do I want to do. Sometimes just product searching is boring so listening to something like a video or podcast is good. I find I can get through the 1hr+ vids while doing the product searches and then reading descriptions, etc at other times to narrow down the selection/choice, etc. Especially if just price comparison shopping...listening to vid is good for that type of task. Some ppl like to do crafts or knitting...being able to concentrate better if their hands are busy. Others do more active activities like washing dishes or folding laundry. I find myself personally getting off vid topic when say it is time to put the clothes away. But everybody has different hacks. It is great that you already figured out to 'chunk it'...taking little chunks at a time...many ADHD ppl don't seem to figure that out. They want to vids to be made into those bite size pieces for them...but in actuality the world at large is made for and by neurotypical folks and those of us who aren't typical have to find ways to do things that work for us given the world around us. Another example, the world was created by and for those ppl who sleep at night and are awake during daytime hours. My natural rhythm is to be awake at night and asleep part of the daylight hours. (In college, no matter how hard I tried to write a paper in morning or even afternoon hours, it never worked...I was always more awake with ideas flowing between midnight to 3am. Didn't really understand it but went with scheduling later classes, work schedules, etc to 'lean into it' since no matter what happened the 12am to 3am time frame were the best hours. After college, the rude awakening of the 'real world' and attempting to mold myself into it. During periods of unemployment, always reverting back to the night owl schedule. The older I got, the harder it was for time changes and keeping myself molded to the real world. At a sleep dr appt, it was there that I finally understood that my natural rhythm wasn't made to fit within real world and if I wanted to continue to try to mold myself (like for having a first shift work schedule) that the dr would need to give me rx to sleep at night and rx to wake me up in the morning and attempt to keep me awake during day. Since I wasn't working at the time, it was far easier to just lean into my natural rhythms. Making appointments and/or seeing friends daytime...is more difficult but on a day to day basis....going to sleep at 5am and getting up at 2pm is easier for me...scheduling everything I need to do for after 3pm...is what I personally have to do. Makes for possibly waiting more time for a dr appt to be available...unless I want to schedule it at a normal time when I'm normally sleeping...done it but I wasn't quite with it for the appt...no matter how much caffeine I took. (Had I realized that career choice would largely depend on when I was naturally awake...I would not have had much choice. Not alot of careers that work nights that require advanced degrees...(before remote working became an option). I would have gotten bored with all those jobs where you don't use your mind...as it I was bored within a few years of the jobs that I had gotten with an advanced degree. Sorry I got off tangent..
Your videos have helped me so much. I can't thank you enough for how much good you've put back into the world. You're truly an inspiration to us all!
Dr. Barkley, thank you so much for all that you do, particularly your research updates. ❤ Your channel and other online lectures have helped educate me and my family, and I share your videos widely.
thank you
I love your research roundups! I’d be far more tempted to go read studies myself (and get caught in a rabbit hole tangle. I know from experience) without them. The commentary on them is so helpful too :)
Thanks for another great video!🇦🇺👴🏻
Thank you from this very late diagnosed Australian woman. Diagnosed at 60, 7 years ago .❤
Gives me hope
This is great!
This sounds a bit strange, but I often find these videos depressing. Even though I am diagnosed and the drugs have helped enormously, I still see my behaviour and catastrophes as a moral failing. I tried everything to make myself into a good person instead of a total loser. It was only after I got run over and had an extreme emotional reaction to it that I came into contact with real doctors instead of all the charlatans that had conned me into giving them 000s of Euros to make me a successful person.
The depression lifts when I move another step towards accepting that this is a feature of my brain and I could not cure it with discipline and effort. I don't have to care whether anyone else believes me, it is my private knowledge that helps free me from shame.
My Dad had it too. I feel so sad for him --- of course, he was never diagnosed. I have a lump in my throat writing this. If I can feel that much compassion for him (he's been dead for 20 years) why not the same for me and my fellow ADHD'ers?
It's so depressing to think about what life could have been for us. "But you have so much potential! If you would just..."
I was first diagnosed in '79, but back then no one really understood the ins and outs and comorbidities of it all.
My childhood was so miserable that it kept me from having children because I didn't want to inflict that pain on anyone else, since 'whatever' is wrong with me is obviously genetic.
My favorite person, my uncle, also died without knowing what was 'wrong' with him. He was the only person who was ever really kind to me as a child. He couldn't help, of course, but he ~understood~. Our brains worked the same way.
Yesterday I learned about Dyspraxia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia. My mother cried, but at least now we understand why the years of tutoring for dyslexia didn't help. Turns out that I'm everything but dyslexic.
As sad as they make me, what I love about thse videos is the hope that other kids won't have to go through what we went through.
And now I'm crying, so I'm going to wish both of us a happy weekend and go outside and play in the dirt 😊
@@nobody8328 thanks for this heart-warming, life affirming response. Have a peaceful Sunday, or a crazy one.
Thank you! I am very interested in research.
Lol that’s always been my experience that where drinking relaxes others it stimulates me and keeps me awake.
I can see the potential for gut biome differences in those with ASD and the need to investigate the dietary variations in those with ASD as noted in the study conclusions. Some children with ASD have very restrictive likes with regard to taste and texture of food while others can lean completely differently exceeding the "typical NT child".
Thanks again for keeping us informed!! Would you be interested in looking at a recent study regarding lectins and microbiota composition in adhd children? It's interesting to see there weren't any major differences in gut biome composition in adhd vs siblings. Of course the study i'm referring to is only 58 children so it's not going to carry much weight on its own. The title is " The Impact of Integrating a Low-Lectin Diet with Traditional ADHD Treatments on Gut Microbiota Composition and Symptom Improvement in Children - A Cohort Study"
Dr. Barkley . Are there studies to explain why people with ADHD sleep after taking stimulants?.
I have a friend with quite severe symptoms of ADHD and his sleep problems start if he doesn't consume cannabis weekly or biweekly. Now at this point I don't know if that's withdrawal, or his sleep problems need some kind of relaxing drugs.
Where is Dr. Barkley located?
Good evening Dr Barkley, do you plan on putting a list of “good practices” to implement in everyday life with adhd ? (Based on meta analysis, as to keep only the stuff that is proven to work)
Octopuss... Groan 😏
What effect of does early life stress and lack of nurturing attunement and attachment have on the microbiome?
Hi Russel. I am curious to know what you think about SSRIs. I am very slowly coming off Escitalopram (took 10mg for just over a year and tapering over months). The withdrawal has been brutal because the Ritalin slow release has stopped working since I reduced my dose of Escitalopram.
Is this a coincidence? Or a temporary effect?
Russell did you check out Michael segal m.d on hypokalemic sensory over stimulation. I have had a history of seizures have sensory issues and lidocaine is hit and miss on me also my son? What's your thoughts on this more severe type of adhd?
Hello Dr. Barkley, I am commenting from Iran. Can you recommend or review a book series suitable for adults with adhd?
I read your books and they helped me a lot.
Russel I tried adhd medication for 3 years on and off but everyone I try just makes me angry and anxious. I’m productive but I feel bad. (I have Tourette’s aswell) Is it a bad idea to give up with medication and try other strategies?
Hello Dr! I'm 23 and i have ADHD and i also have DMD, so my doctor told me stimulants might be a problem for me because of DMD. is there anything that can be less risky that also improve my ADHD?
Hiya Russ! I'm a PhD student with ADHD. I'm in the humanities, though, so I do not have the time to keep up with ADHD research on my own. These research updates are a fantastic service (like others in the comments have pointed out already); I'm the only one in my bio-family that has been diagnosed with ADHD (at the age of 31), but the rest of my family seems extremely ADHD now that we know what to look out for. These reviews are making a difference for us, not least for my siblings' children. Thank you for sharing your expertise and training with us!
Thanks
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