Study identifies part of brain key to controlling attention

Being prone to distraction seems to be a common post-stroke occurence. Would damage here explain your problems? What stroke protocol does your doctor have to address these prloblems?
Does your doctor have ANY stroke rehab protocols?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287692.php

Are you prone to distraction? Was your attention caught by something outside the window before you reached the end of that last sentence? Why does that happen? A group of scientists believe they have the answer, identifying a group of neurons in the brain that may be responsible for lapses in concentration.

The study is the first time that researchers have managed to convincingly identify a network of neurons responsible for focusing attention.

The team from McGill University in Canada have reported that a network of neurons located in the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) work together to filter visual information to enable focus while ignoring distractions.
Their work, published in Neuron, could have huge implications for people with neurological disease such as ADHD, autism, and schizophrenia, in which attentional focus is dysfunctional.
Previous studies had mainly documented the activity of neurons in the LPFC in response to visual attention independent of each other. "However, in realistic settings, ensembles of simultaneously active LPFC neurons must generate attentional signals on a single-trial basis," write the authors.

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