Luke O'Neill

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

And it really is about diversity.

And then it's quite remarkable when you look at it, the number of famous people

and high achievers, who clearly, looking back on them now, and again, it's just based on diagnosis, based on behavior, probably had ADHD.

Who's top of the list?

Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Darwin.

They reckon these guys may have all had ADHD, and that's why they were great.

What they did, they could focus.

A key strange feature is focusing on one thing for a long time and not being distracted by something else, you know?

So it's not just lack of attention, that's one end of it, but also hyperattitude.

vigilance and focusing can be a feature too and then being a bit restless must have led Charles Darwin to wonder where did all these species come from you know he wanted to answer that question and restlessness is a trait you know so maybe as I say it's a good thing and also famous people Richard Branson Jim Carey Channing Tatum Emma Watson Lily Allen

Michael Phelps, they all reckon they have ADHD as well.

So again, it's not always a bad thing.

Now, clearly, if people are suffering and it's really disrupting them in school and all kinds of issues, then, of course, they absolutely need help.

Really important.

And try and diagnose and help them possibly with medication and also the other aspects.

So it is a very serious thing to try and help people with, very importantly.

And I think overall then, the immune part could be really interesting.

We need more and more research.

Can you pin down what's happening in the brain, in the immune system that may well help us then devise better therapies for people?

Because some of these things don't work.

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