Navigating ADHD Facts and Fiction w/Dr. Stephen Faraone (rebroadcast)
Hacking Your ADHD
William Curb
4.7 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
If you only listen to one episode this year to ground your understanding of ADHD, make it this one. We are dipping back into the archives to bring you a masterclass from Dr. Stephen Faraone, a world-renowned expert ranked in the top 0.01% of scientists globally.
In a world of 60-second TikTok "diagnoses" and viral misinformation, Dr. Faraone joins William to discuss the ADHD Evidence Project. They strip away the noise to look at what 208 internationally supported research statements actually tell us about the ADHD brain.
If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/202
What's Inside This Encore:
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The "Pyramid of Evidence": Why a charismatic story on social media isn't the same as a peer-reviewed meta-analysis.
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Debunking the "Modern Invention" Myth: Did you know ADHD was described in medical texts as far back as the 1700s?
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The Truth About Environment: From "Screen Time" to "Bad Parenting" and what actually causes ADHD (and what definitely doesn't).
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The Medication Gap: A look at the real-world costs of not treating ADHD, including the staggering statistics within prison populations.
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The "Default Mode Network": A fascinating look at why the ADHD brain struggles to flip the switch between daydreaming and "Executive Mode."
Why We're Re-Sharing This: This episode serves as a vital "BS detector" for anyone navigating ADHD. Dr. Faraone reminds us that while ADHD is a significant part of our lives, it doesn't define our entire identity: it's just the operating system we're working with.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, |
| 0:06.5 | I dig in the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. |
| 0:11.4 | Hey, team, this week we've got an incredible guest, Dr. Stephen Ferone, one of the world's |
| 0:16.6 | foremost experts on ADHD. Let me just give you a quick rundown on how influential Dr. Ferone is. |
| 0:22.9 | He has authored over 700 journal articles, editorials, chapters, and books. |
| 0:27.1 | He's listed as the eighth-highest producer of high-impact papers in psychiatry from 1990 to |
| 0:32.1 | 1999 as determined by the Institute for Scientific Information. |
| 0:36.4 | And that same institute in 2005 listed |
| 0:38.8 | him as the second high-sighted author in the area of ADHD. Then in 2019 and 2020, his citation |
| 0:44.6 | metrics placed him in the top 0.01% of scientists across all fields. Truly someone looked to by his |
| 0:51.4 | peers. He also has a host of awards, including in 2002, |
| 0:55.2 | being inducted into the Chad Hall of Fame, as well as so many others. Currently, Dr. Farone |
| 0:59.9 | serves as a distinguished professor of psychiatry, physiology, and neuroscience at sunny |
| 1:04.4 | upstate medical university, and as president of the World Federation on ADHD. So yeah, this guy |
| 1:10.4 | knows what he's talking about |
| 1:11.3 | when it comes to ADHD. And if you only listen to one episode of this podcast this year, |
| 1:15.5 | I'd suggest this one. One of the focal points of our conversation today is the ADHD Evidence |
| 1:20.2 | Project, which Dr. Ferone started to help fight misinformation about ADHD and give free access |
| 1:25.6 | to the information we have about ADHD. On the site, which can be found at ADHDevidence.org, you can find the International Consensus Statement, |
| 1:33.3 | which provides 208 statements strongly supported by ADHD research. |
| 1:37.3 | In the episode, we get more into what that means and what went into the process of making the statements |
| 1:42.3 | and the standards of research. In the episode, we also discuss evidence-based treatment, debunk common myths, |
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