Aston-Jones says that it’s unclear if some people are drawn to multitasking because that’s the way their brain works, or if multitasking itself causes changes in the brain. And it’s not clear if the brain changes caused by switching attention from YouTube to Google to Twitter and then back to your iPhone—if that is what is occurring—are easily reversed.
Dr. Goodman offers the advice he gives to many of his patients with adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, who often have difficulty focusing and completing tasks.
He suggests turning off your BlackBerry so that it doesn’t vibrate every time you get a text or an email. “Put the emails on your schedule and don’t be a slave to the BlackBerry buzzer,” he says. “I check my emails once an hour, once every two hours—I’m not responding to them as they come in.”
However, he says that multitasking won’t give you ADHD, which is a highly genetic condition. “You can’t cause ADHD,” he says. “You don’t wake up at 7 years old or 24 years old and because you played too many video games you have ADHD.”
Aston-Jones says to stay tuned for more research. “There hasn’t been a huge amount of work in this area up to this point,” he says. “It’s an area that’s really starting and will be increasing.”
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