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I don't think this article is informative at all. ADHD-Inattentive (or ADD)is primarily a frontal lobe condition. I'm not convinced that meditation alone will
by neurotech1 16y ago
I don't think this article is informative at all.
ADHD-Inattentive (or ADD)is primarily a frontal lobe condition.
I'm not convinced that meditation alone will boost attention. Meditation tends to boost alpha activity in the brain, but that only has limited advantage in attention.
Alpha boosting activities would help more with addictions.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoI don't know anything about the neurological side of things, but many forms of meditation are all about attention management. Put another way: if meditation doesn't boost attention, you're probably not doing it right.
- SMrF 16y agoAfter upvoting this comment I had a second thought: I think the hypothesis of meditation is that it improves attention, (and that is indeed the point). But has that hypothesis been proved? I can provide my own anecdotal evidence that indeed, it seems as if a meditation practice has boosted my attention span. But this is not really science.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoYes, there are dozens of studies on the effects of meditation. Here's one specifically on attention span: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100714121737.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100714121737.ht...
- neurotech1 16y agoYour probably correct; "if meditation doesn't boost attention, you're probably not doing it right." As an EEG tech, the stories from the 70s were somewhat legendary, about meditation and EEG. Alpha training was considered almost magical.
- kragen 16y agoWhat were these stories?
- rbarooah 16y agoThis google talk by Dan Siegel (a neuroscientist & psychiatrist) talks about mindfulness training causing beneficial structural changes in the frontal lobes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4Od7kqDT8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4Od7kqDT8&feature=relat...
- dtf 16y agoThe ACC is important to attentiveness. It's almost a lower-level to the frontal lobe, connecting it to the emotional and reward areas of the brain. George Bush et al saw poor ACC activation in ADHD subjects while performing the counting stroop: http://www.citeulike.org/user/xinian/article/1366138 http://www.citeulike.org/user/xinian/article/1366138
- ulvund 16y agohttp://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/05/11/0956797610371339.abstract http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/05/11/095679761037...