Wendy Zukerman (Host)

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Come say hello. Let us know what you thought of the episode. All right. Thanks, Meryl. Thanks, Wendy.

Come say hello. Let us know what you thought of the episode. All right. Thanks, Meryl. Thanks, Wendy.

This episode was produced by Meryl Horne, with help from me, Wendy Zuckerman, Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang and Aketi Foster-Keys. We're edited by Blythe Terrell. Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord. Fact-checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, So Wiley and Bobby Lord.

This episode was produced by Meryl Horne, with help from me, Wendy Zuckerman, Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang and Aketi Foster-Keys. We're edited by Blythe Terrell. Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord. Fact-checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, So Wiley and Bobby Lord.

Thanks to all of the researchers that we spoke to for this episode, including Professor Christine Till, Professor Jonathan Broadbent, Dr. John Morris, Professor Bruce Lanphier, Professor Loc Do, Dr. Maria Kipper, Professor Philippe Hajul, Professor Stephen Peckham, Dr. Tommaso Filippini, and Professor Stephen Levy. Besides Versus is a Spotify Studios original.

Thanks to all of the researchers that we spoke to for this episode, including Professor Christine Till, Professor Jonathan Broadbent, Dr. John Morris, Professor Bruce Lanphier, Professor Loc Do, Dr. Maria Kipper, Professor Philippe Hajul, Professor Stephen Peckham, Dr. Tommaso Filippini, and Professor Stephen Levy. Besides Versus is a Spotify Studios original.

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Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus. Today, we're pitting facts against focus as we look at ADHD. Lately, it seems like more and more people are saying, I've got ADHD. And if you're pondering your ADHD status, there are plenty of TikTok listicles out there to help you out.

Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus. Today, we're pitting facts against focus as we look at ADHD. Lately, it seems like more and more people are saying, I've got ADHD. And if you're pondering your ADHD status, there are plenty of TikTok listicles out there to help you out.

Six signs? Ten signs? According to the internet, ADHD goes way beyond those classic symptoms of having trouble paying attention or being fidgety. We're hearing that it includes stuff like

Six signs? Ten signs? According to the internet, ADHD goes way beyond those classic symptoms of having trouble paying attention or being fidgety. We're hearing that it includes stuff like

But some aren't so sure about all these new so-called ADHD symptoms. They're worried that this ballooning definition of ADHD is making a bunch of people think that they have this condition when they don't. There are all these headlines screaming that we're over-diagnosing ADHD, medicating people for ADHD when we shouldn't be.

But some aren't so sure about all these new so-called ADHD symptoms. They're worried that this ballooning definition of ADHD is making a bunch of people think that they have this condition when they don't. There are all these headlines screaming that we're over-diagnosing ADHD, medicating people for ADHD when we shouldn't be.

One British politician called it a fashionable disorder and said a lot of people who have it aren't actually sick at all. You hear this kind of thing a lot.

One British politician called it a fashionable disorder and said a lot of people who have it aren't actually sick at all. You hear this kind of thing a lot.

So today we're asking, when it comes to ADHD, what's real and what's just hype? We'll also find out what is going on in the ADHD brain. There's all these videos online saying that if you've got ADHD, you can blame your dopamine levels. But is that really true? The cutting edge neuroscience on ADHD, we'll give it to you.

So today we're asking, when it comes to ADHD, what's real and what's just hype? We'll also find out what is going on in the ADHD brain. There's all these videos online saying that if you've got ADHD, you can blame your dopamine levels. But is that really true? The cutting edge neuroscience on ADHD, we'll give it to you.