???? Training in Intelligence for Results ▶ • How to grow in your PROFESSIONAL and F... __________________________ We are experiencing a crisis of focus, attention and mental concentration. People are always looking for remedies for concentration and focus, books on focus and the like — and there is no shortage of books and topics about this: hyper focus, radical focus, etc. But after all, what is focus (meaning)? How to have focus? How to improve focus and concentration? Are there supplements for focus and concentration? How to focus on studies? How to have discipline? How to focus at the gym? How to focus at work? How to focus to lose weight? How to focus on your diet? In today's video, Prof. Pedro Calabrez explains the relationship between the brain, focus and emotions. __________________________ VIDEO CHAPTERS 00:00 - The dumbing down of society 05:32 - Lack of focus 10:50 - The baby's brain 21:07 - Neurogenesis in adulthood 27:33 - Windows of neuroplasticity 29:40 - Automatic mode: general condition 33:31 - Alert and adrenaline: emotional condition 44:13 - Focus and acetylcholine: cognitive condition 52:58 - Conditions for neuroplasticity (summary) 56:03 - Focus and GABA 01:03:52 - Tool: visual focus ➔ mental focus 01:13:21 - Maximum focus time (ultradian cycles) 01:18:51 - Sleep and circadian cycle 01:32:21 - Physical activity and nutrition 01:38:50 - Medication and hyperstimulation 01:44:30 - Take control of your brain ________________________________ REFERENCES AND READING RECOMMENDATIONS: Albarracín, D. et al. (2019). The social creation of action and inaction: From concepts to goals to behaviors. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 60, pp. 223-271). Academic Press. Arnold, H.M. et al. (2002). Differential cortical acetylcholine release in rats performing a sustained attention task versus behavioral control tasks that do not explicitly tax attention. Neuroscience, 114(2), 451-460. Clayton, M. S., Yeung, N., & Kadosh, R. C. (2015). The roles of cortical oscillations in sustained attention. Trends in cognitive sciences, 19(4), 188-195. Desmurget, M. (2021). The digital idiot factory: Why, for the first time, children have lower IQs than their parents. Vestígio Editora. Eriksson, PS et al (1998). Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus. Nature medicine, 4(11), 1313-1317. Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, RB, & Mangun, GR (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind (fifth edition). WW Norton & Company. Gould, E. (2007). How widespread is adult neurogenesis in mammals?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(6), 481-488. Hodgson, T. (Ed.). (2019). Processes of Visuospatial Attention and Working Memory (Vol. 41, No. 1). Springer. Kandel, E. et al. (2021). Principles of neural science. McGraw-hill. Klinkenberg, I., Sambeth, A., & Blokland, A. (2011). Acetylcholine and attention. Behavioral brain research, 221(2), 430-442. Ko, LW et al. (2017). Sustained attention in real classroom settings: An EEG study. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 388. Koziol, L. F., Budding, DE, & Chidekel, D. (2013). ADHD as a model of brain-behavior relationships. New York, NY: Springer. Lieberman, D. Z., & Long, M. E. (2018). The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race. Ben Bella Books. Newman, L.A., & McGaughy, J. (2008). Cholinergic deafferentation of prefrontal cortex increases sensitivity to cross-modal distractors during a sustained attention task. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(10), 2642-2650. Parikh, V., Peters, M. S., Blakely, R. D., & Sarter, M. (2013). The presynaptic choline transporter imposes limits on sustained cortical acetylcholine release and attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(6), 2326-2337. Sarter, M., Givens, B., & Bruno, J. P. (2001). The cognitive neuroscience of sustained attention: where top-down meets bottom-up. Brain research reviews, 35(2), 146-160. Seery, M.D., & Quinton, W.J. (2016). Understanding resilience: From negative life events to everyday stressors. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 54, pp. 181-245). Academic Press. Slattery, E.J., et al. (2022). Popular interventions to enhance sustained attention in children and adolescents: A critical systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 104633. Stanford, S.C., & Sciberras, E. (Eds.). (2022). New Discoveries in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Vol. 57). Springer Nature. Terhune, DB, et al. (2016). Time delays after spontaneous blinking. Current Biology, 26(11), R459-R460. van der Kolk, B. (2020). The body keeps the marks: Brain, mind and body in healing from trauma. Sextant. Yu, A. J. (2011). Uncertainty and neuromodulation: Acetylcholine and sustained attention. In Neuroscience of decision making (pp. 109-136). Psychology Press.