Luke O'Neill

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Show Me the Science with Luke O'Neill · The Science of ADHD · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

Now again, as I say, it'll be good because at the moment the diagnosis is based on the various traits that I mentioned.

Now this is where the controversy comes in because some doctors think you can easily find ADHD if you look hard enough.

if you could confirm the diagnosis with imaging of the brain genetics, it would really be very, very helpful.

Now, getting on back to the therapy part, at the moment, there's chemicals that affect the brain, amphetamines and Ritalin, and they seem to bring some benefits to some extent.

But again, there's some criticism, especially in children, that they're being used too much.

Again, you'll see in that documentary, we were saying we're effectively putting a chemical kosh in the brains of our children here that may not be fully necessary.

So that's where the

the controversy as i come in but outside those drugs you can use cognitive behavioral therapy that can be very beneficial to people in other words how to focus and get tasks done you can train children to be more organized which has been shown to provide benefits diet is important because processed foods don't help bad sleep doesn't help either so improving sleep can bring benefits decreasing screen time has been shown to bring benefits as well and really importantly in school

If you adapt the curriculum to be more suitable for people who think a bit differently, that can help them and make them feel less different to others and that can bring benefits as well.

So there's various sort of other things you can do and that's happening to intervene without giving people chemicals.

And then what strikes me as really interesting is we probably need people with some of these traits.

Diversity is fantastic in the human species, remember.

If we've got some people who do maybe

are less, a bit restless.

They may lead us to a different place if the water runs out in the well or whatever, that kind of thing.

You can see how this might have evolved because of some people who are a bit more adventurous or a bit, they like to change and they like to be more curious, you know.

And that doesn't mean they've got ADHD.

Scientists have that trait, very importantly.

And we don't label them all with that condition, do we?

So overall, it's good for our society, we think, to have people who think a bit differently.

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