Particular regions of the brain allow focusing

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, situated in St. Louis discovered that certain regions of the brain allow people to do certain activities and to maximally focus on these. The first author of the study is Amy Daitch, a graduate student researcher. The results of this research are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is considered that people with strokes or brain injuries have problems with focusing on their tasks. The senior author of the study is Maurizio Corbetta, MD, the Normal J. Stupp Professor of Neurology. Corbetta states that “this study shows that temporal alignment of responses in different brain areas is also a very important mechanism that contributes to attention and could be impaired by brain injury”. In this study also participated Eric Leuthardt, MD, co-senior study author, associate professor of neurosurgery and bioengineering. The three authors are together further making analysis on the behavior of different brain regions.