Understanding ADHD

Understanding ADHD. Not a self-test. 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:57 What Is ADHD? 00:10:33 How ADHD Is Diagnosed 00:23:36 ADHD: History and Evidence 00:37:39 ADHD, Genes and the Brain 00:52:38 ADHD Medication: Benefits and Risks 01:11:55 ADHD Support Beyond Medication 01:24:49 Why Starting Can Be So Hard 01:40:22 ADHD, Modern Life and Evolution 01:52:11 How ADHD Changes Across a Life Created and editorially directed by Anders Lunde. AI assists research, drafting, programming, and visual production. Final media, narration, and source credits will be documented for each completed film. AI narration and synthetic visuals; quotes narrated; no actual participants depicted. Credits/changes; no endorsement implied CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Williams et al. (2025): https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2025.10376 — quotes typeset/highlighted, excerpts/ellipsis marked; accounts paraphrased. Adamou et al.: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.13... — passages typeset. Wills & Chakraborty: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare140... — R21 sentence typeset. Schiros, Bowman & Antshel: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02... — Table 2 values recharted. O'Connor et al. (2026), PNAS Fig. 1: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2605729123 — resized, otherwise unmodified. Copyright © 2026 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. Grimell, Ericson & Frick: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.15... — Chrissy's sentence typeset. Ginapp et al., “Dysregulated not deficit”: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... — quote typeset; apostrophe normalized. Rowney-Smith et al., The lived experiences of rejection sensitivity in ADHD: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... — excerpt typeset; apostrophe normalized. Correction: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... Oscarsson, Nelson, Rozental, Ginsberg, Carlbring & Jönsson, Stress and work-related mental illness among working adults with ADHD: a qualitative study: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04... — E's quote typeset; apostrophe normalized. Carr-Fanning & McGuckin, “I Find It Really Difficult to Control Myself Too”: A Qualitative Study of the Effects on the Family Dynamic When Parent and Child Have ADHD: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12110758 — mother's fragment typeset, continuation paraphrased. O'Brien, Kini-Seery, Kelly, Kilbride, Wrigley, Nearchou & Bramham, “I Felt Like a Burden”: An Exploration Into the Experience of Romantic Relationships for People With ADHD: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.70097 — P264 fragment typeset, continuation paraphrased. Kini-Seery et al., “Hormones rule me”: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745505726145... — Miriam's fragment typeset, lead-in paraphrased. Osianlis et al.: https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054725133... Jakobsdóttir Smári et al.: https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025... Eke et al.: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2019.131 — findings/counts recharted. Zhang et al.: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-083658; Gosling et al.: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085875 — findings paraphrased. Traditional Alexander Crichton portrait, attributed to George Henry Harlow; Wellcome Collection L0012969 / Wellcome Library, London / Wellcome Images. Resized/animated. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Charach, Yeung, Volpe, Goodale & dosReis, Exploring stimulant treatment in ADHD: narratives of young adolescents and their parents: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-14-110 — F2 typeset; context paraphrased. CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Tarver, Daley & Sayal, A self-help version of the New Forest Parenting Programme for parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a qualitative study of parent views and acceptability: https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12476 — Parent 9 excerpt typeset; continuation paraphrased. CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Heinrich Hoffmann, Fidgety Philip, plate 19, J. Chr. Abelsted's 1862 Norwegian edition; Nasjonalbiblioteket scan, via Wolfmann/Wikimedia Commons. https://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digib... — page resized/animated; adaptation CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Crichton (1798), pp.270–272; scan: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé, Paris / Internet Archive; public domain, Etalab Open Licence. Cropped, padded, resized, animated, underlined. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor... Figures redrawn with qualifications. OGL v3.0: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/d... Sources, visual credits and license information: https://documentary-heaven.pages.dev/