attention in 2 parts of brain

[charliegirl]

apnews.myway.com/article/20070329/D8O620M00.html

Study May Help Develop ADD Treatments


Mar 29, 4:22 PM (ET)

By LAURAN NEERGAARD



WASHINGTON (AP) - Spot a bear in the woods, and a different part of your brain will yell "pay attention" than if you were studying bears at the zoo. New research shows it takes one part of the brain to start concentrating and another to be distracted. This discovery could help scientists develop better treatments for attention deficit disorder.

"This ability to willfully focus your attention is physically separate in the brain from distracting things grabbing your attention," said Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He led the study, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

"Now we know these two things are separate, it raises the possibility that we can fix them independently," Miller said.

[crazyhouse]

That is so cool I would like to be first in line to be fixed Maybe I can get a group discount. I am so easily distracted!!! and my husband and child have no focus I think we would be perfect canidates!!!LOL

I really wish it were more of a cut and dry illness then a difficult to understand, hard to deal with, no cure for illness.

[unicorn]

That was a really interesting article. What is they could work to fix them independently. How great would that be.