When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years ago inspired a raft of research into networks of brain regions and how they interact with each other.

As you read this, in the background—or perhaps the foreground—is the wandering mind. This basal activity may be best represented in current neuroscience by the Default Mode Network (DMN). The DMN is ...

What Is the Default Mode Network? The default mode network (DMN) is a system of connected brain areas that show increased activity when a person is not focused on what is happening around them. The ...

We have all experienced boredom – that feeling of waning interest or decreased mental stimulation. Eventually we lose focus, we disengage. Time seems to pass slowly, and we may even start to feel ...

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience sheds light on the structural foundations of the brain’s default mode network, a system of regions long associated with internally focused thought, memory, ...

At the forefront of the current therapeutic revolution is Diana Anzaldúa, the founder of Austin Trauma Therapy Center. As a licensed psychosomatic trauma therapist, she has been instrumental in ...