Be Mindful: Your Pot of Gold Could be Your Grave, with Jon Kabat-Zinn
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If you put people in a scanner and tell them to just do nothing, just rest in the scanner, don’t do anything at all. It turns out that there’s a region in the midline of the cerebral cortex that’s known as the default mode network that just lights up that all of a sudden gets very, very active. I mean you’re told to do nothing and then your brain starts to use up energy a lot. A lot of ATP in this, you know, activation in the medial frontal areas. And that’s called the default mode network because when you’re told to do nothing you default to activity in this mode and when you inquire what’s going on there a lot of it has to do with my wondering and just daydreaming. And a lot of that has to do with the self-referencing our favorite subje...
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If you put people in a scanner and tell them to just do nothing, just rest in the scanner, don’t do anything at all. It turns out that there’s a region in the midline of the cerebral cortex that’s known as the default mode network that just lights up that all of a sudden gets very, very active. I mean you’re told to do nothing and then your brain starts to use up energy a lot. A lot of ATP in this, you know, activation in the medial frontal areas. And that’s called the default mode network because when you’re told to do nothing you default to activity in this mode and when you inquire what’s going on there a lot of it has to do with my wondering and just daydreaming. And a lot of that has to do with the self-referencing our favorite subje...
