Does the brain rest
Modern researches in Neuroscience have proven factual evidences, that Mindfulness teachings have the right tools to improve our life such as pay attention and change the patterns of brain and our attitude and behaviour. We share these programmes as those show lots of compatibilities of what we teach in our courses on Mindfulness for stress reduction and other health benefits.
Broadcasts BBC Radio 4 Tue 20 Sep 2016 09:00
The Anatomy of Rest: Does the brain rest
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Sit down, relax and think of nothing. Struggling? There might be a good reason why your mind seems to wander even when you try very hard to switch off: your brain never really rests. And contrary to popular belief, those idle daydreams might even be beneficial. For years, neuroscientists worked on the assumption that our brains work hard when given a specific job to do, and switch off when we're not mentally stimulated. This is why you'll read about experiments in which volunteers perform a task - tapping a finger, performing some mental arithmetic, looking at evocative pictures - while their brain is scanned. The scan reveals which parts of the brain become more active during the task and which become less active.
But neuroscientists were surprised to discover that when the brain is supposedly resting it's actually more active. This suggests that day dreaming, or mind wandering as psychologists call it, must have a purpose. Claudia Hammond travels to Leipzig to discover what neuroscientists are finding about how the brain at rest uses energy and the links to creativity.
Image: Daniel Margulies, Max Planck Research for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity.
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The Quest for Rest
The Anatomy of Rest
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Broadcast: BBC Radio 4 Tue 13 Sep 2016 09:00
Rest sounds like a straightforward topic. We think we know what it is. Until you start to look closely and then it's not so simple. Over the last two years Claudia Hammond has been working at the Wellcome Collection in London as part of a team called Hubbub - a group including psychologists, artists, poets, neuroscientists, musicians, historians and sociologists - all coming together to examine the topic of rest.
In the first of three programmes Claudia attempts to define rest. Is it the absence of work? Does it have to mean doing nothing? Claudia discusses the concept of rest with a historian, a composer, a poet and an English literature scholar.
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