This video is so informative. I'm studying to become an LPC and I did not know these things. I also have ADD and Dr. Barkley's explanation about exective functing helped me understand why I behave the way I do. My husband was just telling me the other day I have issues with time management. I said if I get there early I'm sitting around piddling my thumbs. People who need to be stimulated a lot hate down time. This video just made my world make a whole lot more sense!!! Thanks so much. No wonder why many of us suffer from depression. We don't know why we struggle so much just to get through the day. This video makes me want to continue my studies and get my doctorate in neuropsychology. I will definitly be watching more!
Diagnosed at 50 but knew it all along. this guy is like the Buddha of ADHD professionals, Love him. the host is also very knowledgeable and did a great job!
This video is excellent. Great job on the interview, Eric! Really detailed knowledge here about ADHD, and especially on the 7 executive functions. I also appreciated learning about Dr. Barkley's background and why he has chosen to specialize in ADHD.
I know this comment is 6 years old, but just wanted to say he also lost another person aside from his brother to ADHD back then AND started researching it or overtaking the research also only after he had randomly ended up there to help out with some stuff elsewhere :) So yeah, there's even more to that.
Great video! I've been recently discovering more of Dr Barkley's work, having only been diagnosed myself for about 2 years now. He seems like a really approachable guy!
But wouldn't the neuro scans at least be able to diagnose you if you had severe ADHD? Wouldn't the people in the overlap have mild ADHD, or such as family members of ADHD years have some symptoms but just be subclinical?
My 2 cents here: don’t worry so much about how things are named. Words and even acronyms, like ADHD, in the common sense and discourse are often associated with different meaning and perception of value. Even the word disorder in certain contexts can have a positive connotation. Because some people have made the argument that ADHD is a “different ability”, and since books were written to basically make people with these problems feel better about themselves, this gave rise to some exaggerated views as the ADHD person being some sort of natural innovator, or the individual in hunter gatherer tribes who scans the horizon for recognising dangers and opportunities earlier than the rest, etc, etc. There may of course some truth in this, and of course I liked that perspective to see myself in some way “special”, and this had some value in allowing me to form strategies for better functioning, including choice of jobs etc. I believe though that putting too much emphasis at renaming things to give the ADHD spectrum “nicer sounding” words, while not wrong, can be counter productive and actually lead to reinforcing prejudice among those who reject the more accurate view based on ignorance (whereby will full ignorance also plays a role), especially at a time where identity politics got the better of all of us with all that victimology rating. Picture someone starting a talk as follows. “As an African-Asian gay man with functioning ADHD of the inattentive kind and an artist with extensive training in mathematics, my opinion on the topic is ....”, I.m.o. Like most other neuro-psychological disorders are both genetic and developmentally determined. So it is wrong to blame it on the parents, but it’s also wrong to completely leave the role of upbringing, that is, parents and schools off the hook. It is very important to get this right, because otherwise we reinforce this split: On one side the stereotype of the doctor who simply pushes the pills, decried as evil tool of the pharmaceutical industry. On the other side the romantic idea of the wild boy who never pays attention because he’s daydreaming about cosmology and will as young adult step in the shoes of the next Einstein. In the story told here about brain wiring is something important with respect to the mixed nature of ADHD: the way the brain wires, reinforces or weakens connections between separate regions is in part an adaptive process, and therefore must depend on environmental influences and stimuli. So it may be that the relative timing of different cortical components is off in some way, but that results in a variation of the intermediate conditions for the strength of connections. I suppose if certain parts of a developing brain are delayed to come online, other structures find some kind of workaround giving rise to a different wiring that deviates from the norm. At the same time, the fine structures of that wiring depend on the typical activity patterns processed in the developing brain, and that depends on the interaction with the environment. What really is needed then to find out how this works in detail and if there are common patterns, and then inform the public about this. Why am I writing about this: I have followed some of Dr. Barkley’s lectures on TH-cam, and learned a lot. But often it was a bit sobering. While he needed to emphasise the objective and neuro-physiological foundations as an antidote to the fuzzy-wuzzy ideas that are swirling around, I often thought that it gave too much of an picture of determinism. The idea that you’re born with it, and rub it in. I know it wasn’t intended that way. But just tell someone: your prefrontal cortex is not up to snuff, didn’t keep up with the development of other parts, etc. (I’m simplifying) And that is followed by wording akin to: “that’s not your fault, but that’s a fact, you’re born that way.” Even if that is true, and I believe it, it still may create a feeling of hopelessness, even though the doctor’s intention was the very opposite, namely saying: Only if we know the truth about the condition can we find ways to heal it or at least deal with it. I say, I accept that as true, but I definitely want to keep in mind that this is only a preliminary approximation of the truth. It is important to also emphasise, with realism and without romantic exaggeration, the plasticity of the brain and brain development even of the adult brain. So I hope that the research goes in the direction of exploring patterns for better coping with and influencing how an ADHD brain can improve functioning. One important question would be to investigate cases of highly functional ADHD, and how they differ from the average or low functional cases. For example: Could it be made physically manifest and assessed by using cutting edge diffusion MRI? If it is true that brains can to some extent be “rewired” on small scales, then we ought to find out how to nurture that. Can be anything combined: medication, specific exercises including mental training, and general coaching. Perhaps you really need just 50 very detailed case studies to get a real new clue about this. I think that this should be the way forward to get out of the often too simplistic ideas about the neuro-physiology, where it is often neglected that the whole damn brain plus periphery, as a system, is involved in “ADHD - behaviour”. Further more: how about computational models of ADHD? If we have all these measurements of detailed wiring of a particular brain, and in addition all these measurements by fMRI, how come the outcome of the research is usually boiled down to a handful of histograms with big error bars, to show some differences between case groups. Isn’t it time that all these massive data are mapped on attempts of computational modelling: large scale neurological connectivity with simulated dynamics of neural activity, while also modelling the interactions of neurotransmitters. This area might be called computational ADHD neuroscience. Does it exist? BTW, the reason this interests me is because it would be exiting and stimulating. Making little summary statistics is total boredom. For me anyways, physicist on a stray.
I think there's a lot of value in this presentation. However I take exception with the complete ruling out of any social environmental factors. Don't those factors also affect our gene expression and our brain wiring? As was does discussed, the brain is adaptable and "rewires" itself as it encounters difficulty.
A little disapointed he did not have more speaking time to go indebth about adhd and news ans espacially how to tiltrate treatment. But im happy for you 😄🌈
"Self control (or self-regulation) is any action directed toward self." Magnificent! ! Bravo!! That is so sickeningly distorted it benumbs the imagination and shackles the soul into hysteria! Simply, NO!, NO!! and NO! Self regulation has to do with co-regulation, for example, deepening affect (emotional_ reciprocal attachment and attunment, specifically the dyad! The baby or the toddler becomes internally regulated through the loving emotional co-regulation of the caregiver! That is the most basic example. This monadistic, solipsistic, isolationist, disparate behaviorist bullshit was thrown out the window decades ago!
Sorry, "self regulation does not begin with executive functioning!" It begins with lower right brain to right brain subcortical communication between the mother and child. Specifically, in deepening affect reciprocal attachment and attunement with either secure or insecure or ambivalent child/parent caregiver is the right to right brain EMOTIONAL communication in infants/toddlers and their empathically responsive or unresponsive primary caregivers. It is these right to right brain communication areas, e.g., amygdala, hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal axis; the temporal parietal junction, anterior cingulate, fusiform face area, superior temporal sulcus, insular, etc that create the core foundations for executive functioning. "Attending and regulating" has to do with early emotional engagement practices by primary caregivers which then creates the foundations for internal regulation. Aside from that ADHD diagnosis has NO biological markers; the chemical imbalance theory was a known hoax for decades (insufficient serotonin or excess of dopamine). It is as the majority of classificatory DSM schema 100% fraud!
@@hardstyle2289 It's called 25+ years of Developmental Affect Neuroscience. via anatomical research and imaging studies. May I suggest to you look up the names of Allen Schore )1994: Affect Regulation: The Neurobiology of Emotion); Bruce Perry, Dan Siegal, Ed Tronick, Trevarthen; Bowlby, Stuart Shanker, Stanley Greenspan But here I will give you the first clue: th-cam.com/video/lY7XOu0yi-E/w-d-xo.html
@@Neilgs obviously i mean the part that disproves barkleys theory that self regulation is an executive function, or that adhd is correlated with neurotransmitter imbalances, im not gonna read all that myself to try and find the relevant parts.
@@hardstyle2289 If you choose to watch the foremost expert on affect regulation theory and in utero through the first three years of development you will actually see/come to understand that self-regulation is DEPENDENT upon Co-regulation (for example, in secure based attachment practices the parent helps not only soothe, down regulate negative emotions but up regulate joyful states) resulting in internal/self-regulation; reduction of coristol increases in oxytocin, etc. It is specifically the Limbic hypothalamus, pituitary adrenal axis; anterior cingulate and right oribital frontal cortex (parent to child) that are primary involved in the underlying initial right brain to right brain subcortical regulation upon which later executive functioning proper is DEPENDENT upon! The theory of chemical or neurotransmitter imbalances (i.e., dopamine excess or serotonin under-production) have LONG been known/exposed to be a fraud and disproven. Pharma had known this decades ago but went ahead with that anyway. There is enough out there that you can look up and read on your own regarding that.
Sorry, my friend "Self-awareness" is not an executive function. The self is NOT an isolated monad. It is only "self in relationship to other" that forms biopsychosocially the bedrock of inter-relationships or core executive functioning!
Again, sorry, it is "Not about the individual's ability to change the future!" LOL It is about the individual with other individuals the ability to be mindful and present! I want to puke everytime I hear this pharma pet speak! It is in direct contradiction of to Developmental Affect Neuroscience!
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Russell Barkley, our best voice. What a cool guy, he's actually one of the few people who responds to email. Thanks for this video!
This video is so informative. I'm studying to become an LPC and I did not know these things. I also have ADD and Dr. Barkley's explanation about exective functing helped me understand why I behave the way I do. My husband was just telling me the other day I have issues with time management. I said if I get there early I'm sitting around piddling my thumbs. People who need to be stimulated a lot hate down time. This video just made my world make a whole lot more sense!!! Thanks so much. No wonder why many of us suffer from depression. We don't know why we struggle so much just to get through the day. This video makes me want to continue my studies and get my doctorate in neuropsychology. I will definitly be watching more!
Dr. Barkley is the Guru of ADHD research, knowledge, and information delivery!
Russell Barkley is amazing!
I love Barkley. He is gold.
Diagnosed at 50 but knew it all along. this guy is like the Buddha of ADHD professionals, Love him. the host is also very knowledgeable and did a great job!
This video is excellent. Great job on the interview, Eric! Really detailed knowledge here about ADHD, and especially on the 7 executive functions. I also appreciated learning about Dr. Barkley's background and why he has chosen to specialize in ADHD.
I know this comment is 6 years old, but just wanted to say he also lost another person aside from his brother to ADHD back then AND started researching
it or overtaking the research also only after he had randomly ended up there to help out with some stuff elsewhere :) So yeah, there's even more to that.
if only i knew all this when i was younger lol.
great upload
sad to hear about his brother, all too familiar unfortunately
Extremely informative and helpful, love your podcast and Dr. Barkley!
I’ve sent this video to almost evryne in my life. Thank you
Well done! Thankyou.
Great video! I've been recently discovering more of Dr Barkley's work, having only been diagnosed myself for about 2 years now. He seems like a really approachable guy!
He's super cool and actually really cares about the disorder. I emailed him recently for an ADHD doc referral in NYC area and he replied same day.
Thanks a lot for organizing this it was awesome! ✨
I love that you were using and promoting Zoom so long ago! Way ahead of the curve!
Triggered me throughout - 'smaller Brain' 😂. Great video!! Subscribed
Brilliant interview!! 👏💜
So doe’s Inattentive type not exist anymore? I identify way more with SCT but am on a waiting list (In the UK) for ADHD assessment.
How did you get an interview with Dr Barkley, did you email his office?
But wouldn't the neuro scans at least be able to diagnose you if you had severe ADHD? Wouldn't the people in the overlap have mild ADHD, or such as family members of ADHD years have some symptoms but just be subclinical?
My 2 cents here: don’t worry so much about how things are named. Words and even acronyms, like ADHD, in the common sense and discourse are often associated with different meaning and perception of value. Even the word disorder in certain contexts can have a positive connotation. Because some people have made the argument that ADHD is a “different ability”, and since books were written to basically make people with these problems feel better about themselves, this gave rise to some exaggerated views as the ADHD person being some sort of natural innovator, or the individual in hunter gatherer tribes who scans the horizon for recognising dangers and opportunities earlier than the rest, etc, etc. There may of course some truth in this, and of course I liked that perspective to see myself in some way “special”, and this had some value in allowing me to form strategies for better functioning, including choice of jobs etc.
I believe though that putting too much emphasis at renaming things to give the ADHD spectrum “nicer sounding” words, while not wrong, can be counter productive and actually lead to reinforcing prejudice among those who reject the more accurate view based on ignorance (whereby will full ignorance also plays a role), especially at a time where identity politics got the better of all of us with all that victimology rating. Picture someone starting a talk as follows. “As an African-Asian gay man with functioning ADHD of the inattentive kind and an artist with extensive training in mathematics, my opinion on the topic is ....”,
I.m.o. Like most other neuro-psychological disorders are both genetic and developmentally determined. So it is wrong to blame it on the parents, but it’s also wrong to completely leave the role of upbringing, that is, parents and schools off the hook. It is very important to get this right, because otherwise we reinforce this split: On one side the stereotype of the doctor who simply pushes the pills, decried as evil tool of the pharmaceutical industry. On the other side the romantic idea of the wild boy who never pays attention because he’s daydreaming about cosmology and will as young adult step in the shoes of the next Einstein.
In the story told here about brain wiring is something important with respect to the mixed nature of ADHD: the way the brain wires, reinforces or weakens connections between separate regions is in part an adaptive process, and therefore must depend on environmental influences and stimuli. So it may be that the relative timing of different cortical components is off in some way, but that results in a variation of the intermediate conditions for the strength of connections. I suppose if certain parts of a developing brain are delayed to come online, other structures find some kind of workaround giving rise to a different wiring that deviates from the norm. At the same time, the fine structures of that wiring depend on the typical activity patterns processed in the developing brain, and that depends on the interaction with the environment.
What really is needed then to find out how this works in detail and if there are common patterns, and then inform the public about this.
Why am I writing about this: I have followed some of Dr. Barkley’s lectures on TH-cam, and learned a lot. But often it was a bit sobering. While he needed to emphasise the objective and neuro-physiological foundations as an antidote to the fuzzy-wuzzy ideas that are swirling around, I often thought that it gave too much of an picture of determinism. The idea that you’re born with it, and rub it in. I know it wasn’t intended that way. But just tell someone: your prefrontal cortex is not up to snuff, didn’t keep up with the development of other parts, etc. (I’m simplifying) And that is followed by wording akin to: “that’s not your fault, but that’s a fact, you’re born that way.” Even if that is true, and I believe it, it still may create a feeling of hopelessness, even though the doctor’s intention was the very opposite, namely saying: Only if we know the truth about the condition can we find ways to heal it or at least deal with it. I say, I accept that as true, but I definitely want to keep in mind that this is only a preliminary approximation of the truth. It is important to also emphasise, with realism and without romantic exaggeration, the plasticity of the brain and brain development even of the adult brain. So I hope that the research goes in the direction of exploring patterns for better coping with and influencing how an ADHD brain can improve functioning. One important question would be to investigate cases of highly functional ADHD, and how they differ from the average or low functional cases. For example: Could it be made physically manifest and assessed by using cutting edge diffusion MRI? If it is true that brains can to some extent be “rewired” on small scales, then we ought to find out how to nurture that. Can be anything combined: medication, specific exercises including mental training, and general coaching. Perhaps you really need just 50 very detailed case studies to get a real new clue about this. I think that this should be the way forward to get out of the often too simplistic ideas about the neuro-physiology, where it is often neglected that the whole damn brain plus periphery, as a system, is involved in “ADHD - behaviour”. Further more: how about computational models of ADHD? If we have all these measurements of detailed wiring of a particular brain, and in addition all these measurements by fMRI, how come the outcome of the research is usually boiled down to a handful of histograms with big error bars, to show some differences between case groups. Isn’t it time that all these massive data are mapped on attempts of computational modelling: large scale neurological connectivity with simulated dynamics of neural activity, while also modelling the interactions of neurotransmitters. This area might be called computational ADHD neuroscience. Does it exist?
BTW, the reason this interests me is because it would be exiting and stimulating. Making little summary statistics is total boredom. For me anyways, physicist on a stray.
Well i've read it. And i wanna learn to use my specialities as well. All of them.
I think there's a lot of value in this presentation. However I take exception with the complete ruling out of any social environmental factors. Don't those factors also affect our gene expression and our brain wiring? As was does discussed, the brain is adaptable and "rewires" itself as it encounters difficulty.
Coloca subtitules in spanish
Slightly
A little disapointed he did not have more speaking time to go indebth about adhd and news ans espacially how to tiltrate treatment.
But im happy for you 😄🌈
Uhm is it possible that adhd, ocd and autism does help each other some times?
Well.. That sound was clearly from VSauce.
"Self control (or self-regulation) is any action directed toward self." Magnificent! ! Bravo!! That is so sickeningly distorted it benumbs the imagination and shackles the soul into hysteria! Simply, NO!, NO!! and NO! Self regulation has to do with co-regulation, for example, deepening affect (emotional_ reciprocal attachment and attunment, specifically the dyad! The baby or the toddler becomes internally regulated through the loving emotional co-regulation of the caregiver! That is the most basic example. This monadistic, solipsistic, isolationist, disparate behaviorist bullshit was thrown out the window decades ago!
Sorry, "self regulation does not begin with executive functioning!" It begins with lower right brain to right brain subcortical communication between the mother and child. Specifically, in deepening affect reciprocal attachment and attunement with either secure or insecure or ambivalent child/parent caregiver is the right to right brain EMOTIONAL communication in infants/toddlers and their empathically responsive or unresponsive primary caregivers. It is these right to right brain communication areas, e.g., amygdala, hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal axis; the temporal parietal junction, anterior cingulate, fusiform face area, superior temporal sulcus, insular, etc that create the core foundations for executive functioning. "Attending and regulating" has to do with early emotional engagement practices by primary caregivers which then creates the foundations for internal regulation. Aside from that ADHD diagnosis has NO biological markers; the chemical imbalance theory was a known hoax for decades (insufficient serotonin or excess of dopamine). It is as the majority of classificatory DSM schema 100% fraud!
where's your research backing up your theory?
@@hardstyle2289 It's called 25+ years of Developmental Affect Neuroscience. via anatomical research and imaging studies. May I suggest to you look up the names of Allen Schore )1994: Affect Regulation: The Neurobiology of Emotion); Bruce Perry, Dan Siegal, Ed Tronick, Trevarthen; Bowlby, Stuart Shanker, Stanley Greenspan But here I will give you the first clue: th-cam.com/video/lY7XOu0yi-E/w-d-xo.html
And of course, Stephen Porges, ThePolyvagal Theory
@@Neilgs obviously i mean the part that disproves barkleys theory that self regulation is an executive function, or that adhd is correlated with neurotransmitter imbalances, im not gonna read all that myself to try and find the relevant parts.
@@hardstyle2289 If you choose to watch the foremost expert on affect regulation theory and in utero through the first three years of development you will actually see/come to understand that self-regulation is DEPENDENT upon Co-regulation (for example, in secure based attachment practices the parent helps not only soothe, down regulate negative emotions but up regulate joyful states) resulting in internal/self-regulation; reduction of coristol increases in oxytocin, etc. It is specifically the Limbic hypothalamus, pituitary adrenal axis; anterior cingulate and right oribital frontal cortex (parent to child) that are primary involved in the underlying initial right brain to right brain subcortical regulation upon which later executive functioning proper is DEPENDENT upon!
The theory of chemical or neurotransmitter imbalances (i.e., dopamine excess or serotonin under-production) have LONG been known/exposed to be a fraud and disproven. Pharma had known this decades ago but went ahead with that anyway. There is enough out there that you can look up and read on your own regarding that.
Sorry, my friend "Self-awareness" is not an executive function. The self is NOT an isolated monad. It is only "self in relationship to other" that forms biopsychosocially the bedrock of inter-relationships or core executive functioning!
I love Gabour Matés perspective on ADHD. This doc made some fair points on the brain imagining
Again, sorry, it is "Not about the individual's ability to change the future!" LOL It is about the individual with other individuals the ability to be mindful and present! I want to puke everytime I hear this pharma pet speak! It is in direct contradiction of to Developmental Affect Neuroscience!