By Nahia Orduña — 2020
Neurodiverse people are gifted in some skills that are essential in the digital age.
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In a provocative review paper, French neuroscientists Jean-Michel Hupé and Michel Dojat question the assumption that synesthesia is a neurological disorder.
Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.
Want to gain access to deeper, more creative thinking and keep your ideas organized at the same time? It’s not impossible.
Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the “door close” button on the elevator aren’t crazy—just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls attention deficit trait, or ADT.
Our brains are hard-wired to make poor choices about harm prevention in today's world. But we can fight it.
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Wherever attention goes the rest of the brain follows—in some sense, attention is your brain’s boss. But is it a good boss and can we train it?