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#71: The Distraction Crisis & Brain-Enhancing Tools - Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
The Interface of Attention and Memory
You can almost feel this tug of war going on with these primal parts of your brain that are saying like, look over there at that salient thing. Older adults seem to be focusing on their rrelevant information just like they were 20 years old. They have what i call the suppression deficit. The degree that they fail to suppress impacts how well they remember what they're focusing on. And so ah, that's why i break distraction into internal forces and external forces. Internal forces could be completely debilitating. It's essentially y p t s d, post ramati. Just the sort is so debilitating, because these intrusive, dramatic events enter your mind against your will when you are trying to do other
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