This video firstly explains what attention, concentration, executive functions are and expands on how we can start rehabilitating them by focusing on the sensory experiences in Routine 1.
Secondly the video provides a practical demonstration that you can use on your rehab journey.
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Chapters //
00:00 Introduction to neurofunctional exercises
00:42 Neurofunctions: attention, concentration, monitoring and executive function
01:25 Reminder of routine 1: impact of cervical/ vestibular, posture and balance exercises
02:50 Impact of routine 1 on sensory domains: cervical/ vestibular, interoceptive and proprioceptive
03:42 Flow of neurological information and the roles of the cerebellum, motor cortex, prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex and insular
04:50 Training the components of the executive function network: attention and concentration
05:30 Neuropsychological model showing the roles of the executive network and monitoring network
08:05 How the executive and monitoring/ salience networks are lateralized to different brain hemispheres. How neuroscience studies identified brain function regions for paying attention to our senses stimulating neuroplasticity
12:49 Self identifying elements: body, senses, feelings, emotions and thoughts, in our awareness
13:02 Experiment for the viewer to identify their self identifying elements.
15:57 How to pay attention and concentrate on our senses; description and experiment
17:04 How do we lose attention and concentration, identifying distractions
17:42 The role of the salience network, identifying attention slip and reengaging the executive network
18:42 Refocusing attention and concentration
19:50 Reinforcing our rehabilitation objectives: Why are we doing these exercises - neuroplasticity
21:11 Model of the attention and concentration Demo procedure
22:20 Guided demonstration on how to pay attention and concentrate on body sensory experience
37:06 Demo debrief
38:34 Outro
Neuroscience Bibliography/ References:
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Kurth, F., MacKenzie-Graham, A., Toga, A. W., & Luders, E. (2015). Shifting brain asymmetry: the link between meditation and structural lateralization. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 10(1), 55-61.
Malinowski, P. (2013). Neural mechanisms of attentional control in mindfulness meditation. Frontiers in neuroscience, 7, 35772.
McGilchrist, I. (2019). The master and his emissary: The divided brain and the making of the western world. Yale University Press.
Tang, Y. Y., Hölzel, B. K., & Posner, M. I. (2015). The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation. Nature reviews neuroscience, 16(4), 213-225.
Tang, Y. Y., Lu, Q., Fan, M., Yang, Y., & Posner, M. I. (2012). Mechanisms of white matter changes induced by meditation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(26), 10570-10574.
Yordanova, J., Kolev, V., Mauro, F., Nicolardi, V., Simione, L., Calabrese, L., ... & Raffone, A. (2020). Common and distinct lateralized patterns of neural coupling during focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 7430.
Yordanova, J., Kolev, V., Nicolardi, V., Simione, L., Mauro, F., Garberi, P., ... & Malinowski, P. (2021). Attentional and cognitive monitoring brain networks in long-term meditators depend on meditation states and expertise. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 4909.
