Local, interventionist, hands-on attention — reducing health problems before care is warranted or billed — means breaking deep tradition in a system that thinks mostly about treatment and response.
Neuroscientists have confirmed much of what we were experiencing: that meditation improves attention, reduces stress hormones, increases appreciation and compassion for others and helps us recover faster from negative information.
Amid the passionate discussion that these figures arouse, one comment by David McAuley, the trust's chief executive, deserves attention: "Reducing UK hunger will require a collective effort from the voluntary sector, government, the Department for Work and Pensions, businesses and the public.
In a world in which tens of thousands of apps compete for consumer attention, reducing the "time to value" (i.e. the time required for a user to create something delightful) is critical.
With all of these systems competing for our attention, reducing driver distraction alone will never be enough.
Hypnosis appears to be a state of narrow focused attention, reduced awareness of external stimuli, and an increased response to suggestions [ 32, 33].
Relative to an active control group, and following only a relatively short training period, posttraining assessments revealed improvements in cognitive control and sustained attention, reduced saccadic reaction times, and reduced latencies to disengage visual attention.
Some evidence suggests that empathetic attention reduces pain, anxiety, need for drugs and procedure time [ 6], yet other studies showed it hinders patients' ability to cope with the pain [ 7].
In line with the above prediction, Roberts et al. (2007) reported that attention reduced the spatial integration of parafoveal cells in V1 and the underlying changes were mediated by a change in the spatial summation area (Roberts et al., 2007).
