ADHD: Scientists discover brains anti-distraction system >>Psychologists have made a brain-related discovery that could revolutionize doctors perception and treatment of attention-deficit disorders. This discovery opens up the possibility that environmental and/or genetic factors may hinder or suppress a specific brain activity that the researchers have identified as helping us prevent distraction. >>This is the first study to reveal our brains rely on an active suppression mechanism to avoid being distracted by salient irrelevant information when we want to focus on a particular item or task. Moreover, disorders associated with attention deficits, such as ADHD and schizophrenia, may turn out to be due to difficulties in suppressing irrelevant objects rather than difficulty selecting relevant ones. >>The researchers are now turning their attention to understanding how we deal with distraction >> looking at when and why we cant suppress potentially distracting objects, whether some of us are better at doing so and why that is the case. Theres evidence that attentional abilities decline with age and that women are better than men at certain visual attentional tasks, says Gaspar, the studys first author.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:35:30 +0000
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