- Are We a Nation of ‘Psuedo-ADD’ Sufferers?
We are becoming a nation of attention deficit disorder sufferers, says Dr. John Ratey, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the author of "Delivered from Distraction."
- Cell phone use and attention
The September issue of the International Journal of Neuroscience, 2007 published an article entitled, Frequent Mobile Phone Use "Might" Improve Mental Concentration.
The study was performed by researchers from Brainclinics Diagnostics and the Radboud University department of Biological Psychology both from Nijmegen (the Netherlands), the Institute of Psychiatry (London) and the Brain Resource Company (Sydney, Australia).
- Children and Cognitive Overload
There are more demands on our attention and less training for us to stop and take it all in. This is of particular interest when it comes to children who have grown up in the fast lane where Web pages that take more than five seconds to load are considered lame. Is the speed and ease compromising their attention spans? Their perspective? Their humanity? Even their work ethic? Or are we just threatened that they will lap us old fogies?
Little is understood about the Information Age's effect on this generation, but it is a burgeoning area of research.
- Children Today: Multi-tasking or Multi-distracted?
Children that are exposed to 8 and a half hours of TV, video games, computers and other media a day — often at once — may be losing the ability to concentrate.
- Good Morning America Features Play Attention
Play Attention was featured on the ABC News Show - Good Morning America on June 20,2005.
- Multitasking vs Task Switching Research
By advancing our understanding of the connection between mind, brain and behavior, this research may help in the design of complex devices – such as airliner cockpits – and may help in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders such as ADHD or schizophrenia."
- Multitasking, ADD and the Workplace
An estimated 8 million adult Americans struggle with the inattention disorders like attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School. But, they say, only 20 percent realize it.
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