Hacker News with Generative AI: ADHD

ChatGPT Helps Students Feign ADHD: An Analogue Study on AI-Assisted Coaching (springer.com)
This preregistered study aimed to assess whether AI-generated coaching helps students to successfully feign attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adulthood.

Artificial Intelligence, Education, Psychology, ADHD

44 points by paulpauper 3 days ago | 46 comments

Why Are ADHD Rates So Much Higher in the U.S.? (gizmodo.com)
Roughly 11% of children and 6% of adults in the U.S are currently diagnosed with ADHD—rates that are significantly higher than those reported in most other countries.

Health, ADHD, United States, Statistics

26 points by rntn 13 days ago | 39 comments

How my ADHD makes handling relationships difficult (aaronjy.me)
As someone with ADHD, I really struggle with maintaining relationships. Not because I don't want them, but because I struggle to keep in touch for various reasons.

ADHD, Relationships, Mental Health

23 points by aaronyarborough 18 days ago | 18 comments

'Dangerous nonsense': AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon (theguardian.com)
Amazon is selling books marketed at people seeking techniques to manage their ADHD that claim to offer expert advice yet appear to be authored by a chatbot such as ChatGPT.

Artificial Intelligence, Books, ADHD, Amazon

56 points by n1b0m 19 days ago | 24 comments

Don't fear getting fired if you have ADHD (claimingattention.substack.com)
For people with ADHD, getting fired can happen—and that's okay.

ADHD, Mental Health, Employment

15 points by asoli 28 days ago | 19 comments

Show HN: PagePal – An eBook reader for ADHD and crap memory (pagepalapp.com)
No more forgetting character names, no more re-reading pages.

Software, ADHD, Reading, Productivity

14 points by ADHDan 31 days ago | 3 comments

Normal Boyhood Is ADHD (world.hey.com)
Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But worse than the diagnosis is that the majority of them end up on amphetamines, like Adderall or Ritalin.

ADHD, Mental Health, Pharmaceuticals, Teenagers

21 points by maheshs 38 days ago | 15 comments

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? (nytimes.com)
With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

Mental Health, ADHD, Healthcare

35 points by NN88 40 days ago | 8 comments

Listening habits and effects of background music in people with and without ADHD (frontiersin.org)
Music is omnipresent in our daily lives (Hu et al., 2021; International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, 2023; North et al., 2004), serving diverse functions such as emotion regulation, concentration enhancement, and providing background engagement during other activities (Chamorro-Premuzic and Furnham, 2007; Goltz and Sadakata, 2021; Hu et al., 2021; Kotsopoulou and Hallam, 2010; Mas-Herrero et al., 2013; Schäfer et al., 2013).

ADHD, Music, Neuroscience, Psychology, Research

65 points by bookofjoe 45 days ago | 26 comments

Solriamfetol shows a 45% reduction in ADHD symptoms (technologynetworks.com)
For millions of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), finding an effective treatment can be a challenge – especially for those who don’t respond well to traditional stimulant medications.

ADHD, Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals, Health

9 points by cachecrab 47 days ago | 0 comments

The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done (add.org)
Can something as simple as another person’s presence make it easier to stay on task?

ADHD, Productivity, Psychology, Life Hacks

365 points by rzk 48 days ago | 216 comments

ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God (youtube.com)

Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction

28 points by doppp 61 days ago | 5 comments

The Hypercuriosity Theory of ADHD (epsig.substack.com)

ADHD, Psychology, Neuroscience, Attention, Cognitive Science

16 points by paulpauper 68 days ago | 0 comments

Obtaining ADHD drugs via telehealth could increase addiction risk (medicalxpress.com)
For nearly five years, people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have had the option of getting their stimulant medications prescribed and renewed by doctors they see only over a computer screen, despite the risks that these stimulant drugs can pose if misused.

Telehealth, ADHD, Addiction Risk, Prescription Drugs

5 points by PaulHoule 73 days ago | 1 comments

The sudden rise of AuDHD: autism and ADHD (2024) (theguardian.com)
Just over a decade ago, autism and ADHD were thought to be mutually exclusive. But in recent years, all that has changed

Autism, ADHD, Mental Health, Psychology, Neurodiversity

14 points by rossant 77 days ago | 5 comments

ADHD Guide to Spaced Repetition (brick.do)
This article assumes you have already tried spaced repetition but either still struggle to do it regularly or gave up on it altogether because it was too boring. If you haven't tried it before, go sign up for Memcode.com right now (or download Anki if you hate yourself), create four flashcards on something you're currently learning, and come back in three months.

ADHD, Learning, Spaced Repetition, Memory

29 points by lakesare 85 days ago | 9 comments

ADHD Brains Can Defeat Impulsivity (claimingattention.substack.com)
I like myself. I wouldn’t trade my ADHD traits for anything—except one. Impulsivity.

ADHD, Neurology, Mental Health

6 points by asoli 105 days ago | 0 comments

Tools for 2025 (yosemitesam.ch)
I love new tools. Whenever I learn about a new tool there is that excitement of new that kicks my ADHD and makes me wanna drop everything immediately, just to spend the next 10 minutes to 5 days learning about the tool.

Tools, Productivity, ADHD, Learning

127 points by todsacerdoti 110 days ago | 21 comments

ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did (claimingattention.substack.com)
This was the most profound realization I had after my diagnosis. It was crucial because, without it, I wouldn't have known how to live with myself.

ADHD, Mental Health, Parenting, Personal Growth

160 points by asoli 111 days ago | 178 comments

Increased Toxicity Risk Identified for Children with Autism, ADHD (sciencealert.com)
A study published in 2023 revealed there's a difference in how children with autism or ADHD clear the common plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA), compared to neurotypical children.

Autism, ADHD, Health, Science, Children

5 points by amichail 118 days ago | 0 comments

Life expectancy/years of life lost in adults w ADHD in UK: matched cohort study (cambridge.org)
Nearly 3% of adults have attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), although in the UK, most are undiagnosed. Adults with ADHD on average experience poorer educational and employment outcomes, worse physical and mental health and are more likely to die prematurely. No studies have yet used mortality data to examine the life expectancy deficit experienced by adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK or worldwide.

Health, ADHD, Research, UK, Cohort Study

61 points by bookofjoe 119 days ago | 114 comments

Adults with ADHD live shorter lives than those without a diagnosis (npr.org)
A large new study finds adults diagnosed with ADHD live shorter lives than they should.

Health, ADHD, Research, Lifespan

7 points by hackernj 120 days ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: How do I rebuild at 36yo after a checkered career of undiagnosed ADHD? (ycombinator.com)
After 36 years of spinning my wheels unfocused, scatterbrained, and anxious, I was finally and recently diagnosed with ADHD.

ADHD, Career Advice, Personal Development, Self-Improvement

46 points by poorinterview 163 days ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Hyperaide – Personal Assistant for Getting Things Done (hyperaide.com)
The AI powered producticity app that's built for ADHD minds.

Productivity Apps, AI, ADHD, Personal Assistant, Show HN

10 points by iJohnPaul 177 days ago | 10 comments

My Red Hot ADHD Programming 'Affliction' (schneems.com)
Sorry, Dave, ADHD is real, and (not acknowledging it) can hurt you.

ADHD, Programming, Mental Health

13 points by caleb_thompson 181 days ago | 2 comments

ADHD Productivity Report 2024 – Personal (futile) journey of (no) improvement (0xff.nu)
After realizing and being able to label the issues I was personally experiencing as ADHD, I finally knew which information and resources to seek out, which have allowed me to make quite a few adjustments to how I operate and organize myself and my day-to-day.

ADHD, Productivity, Self-Improvement, Personal Experience

15 points by hxii 196 days ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: ADHD and Entrepreneurship (ycombinator.com)
Working for others just hasn’t worked out for me. Over the past decade, I’ve tried to ignore my urge to market my side projects and build a business around them, choosing instead to focus on what seemed like the "right" path—a steady 9-to-5 job.

Entrepreneurship, ADHD, Career Choices, Work-Life Balance

15 points by romeros 200 days ago | 16 comments

ADHD should not be treated as a disorder (economist.com)
NOT LONG ago, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was thought to affect only school-aged boys—the naughty ones who could not sit still in class and were always getting into trouble. Today the number of ADHD diagnoses is rising fast in all age groups, with some of the biggest increases in young and middle-aged women.

ADHD, Mental Health, Diagnosis

23 points by bookofjoe 203 days ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD-adapted body doubling (tella.tv)

ADHD, Productivity, Accessibility, Body Doubling

116 points by christalwang 204 days ago | 108 comments

FDA Permits Marketing of Digital Game to Improve Attention in ADHD Children (2020) (fda.gov)
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permitted marketing of the first game-based digital therapeutic device to improve attention function in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Gaming, Health, ADHD, FDA, Digital Therapeutics

41 points by luu 205 days ago | 19 comments