Clinical neuropsychologist and Psychology Today contributor - passionate about motivation and focus and fully engaged living. How 'bout you?
Northborough, MA
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'You never hear someone say, ‘Well, you know, with the time I’ve saved by using my *word processor, I’m going to go to a Zen monastery and hang out.’”
*Feel free to swap out "word processor" for whatever technology is currently tree-chipping our capacity for internal experience
Psychologists have long posited two ways of thinking. "Fast and slow. One is evolutionarily older, both have strengths and foibles.
But easy access to large language models creates a possible third way, discussed in this paper as "cognitive surrender."
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Brain changes associated with 2 types of meditation practice
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If you don't pay for a product (eg subscription to actual journalism), then you are the product. Our attention is being bought and sold like hog jowls.
Free product, like social media and teevee "news" is monetized by aggregating our attention and selling it.
On average, my attention is worth 38 cents per hour to advertisers.
(If I don't pay for the product, I am the product).
I spent most of my allocated reading time reflecting on this, taking notes, researching tangents. This is such a helpful fresh deep way of thinking about phones/screens/tech.
I’m in the @nytimes today. Stop calling your phone a drug. It’s a portal into Fairyland!
nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opini…
This study examined the demographic, cognitive, sleep, and behavioral factors associated with IA and HI symptoms among children. frontiersin.org/journals/psy…
Meta-analysis of transcranial direct current stimulation as a treatment for ADHD symptoms.
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"Results support the need for a gender-specific lens when considering the lifespan impacts of ADHD symptoms" frontiersin.org/journals/glo…
Prevalence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and comorbid psychiatric problems in children 12 years and younger: a systematic review and meta-analysis - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
A collaboration and consultation meeting is an opportunity to problem solve regarding your current ADHD support plan. This consultation may be for you or a loved one, or for your clients/students.
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“a wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.” *
Herbert Simon, 1971
* It's attention. Content consumes attention.
Younger children in a school grade cohort may be more likely to receive a diagnosis of attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than their older peers | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Similar findings in the UK
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