And one of the new frontiers now of course is we just can\u2019t keep finding out that the early experiences matter, and that you can be in deep trouble if you don\u2019t have supportive early experiences. We have to try to figure out what to do about it. And the attention area is one where I think people are going to make the biggest headway, sort of the soonest. Because we\u2019re beginning to understand a fair amount about interventions that improve your ability to focus, your ability to attend. And there are a number of different programs out there that are working on areas like this. So there\u2019s the, what is it, Tools of the Mind, Adele Diamond has studied that, and you are improving attention and attention regulation with some of those kinds of activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, there\u2019s a lot of interest out there, one of the things that folks are looking at is yoga; mindfulness meditation – the kind you would do with kids – which is really about focusing, calming, etcetera. So they\u2019re trying things like that. Do we know what to do yet? No, there\u2019s a lot of activity out there of doing what we call pilot work, the initial, so you get an idea. It might work. We tried some mindfulness training in the preschool down here last summer and it improved executive function. It improved their attention over, I couldn\u2019t believe it. Now you\u2019ve got that data, you\u2019ve got to go back to NIH and say, \u201cOkay, we\u2019ve got some evidence now, can we do a randomized trial in a larger scale to see if it actually works?\u201d And can we try it with children who have more difficulties etcetera. So, it\u2019s a new horizon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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