G. Edmund Siebel, Jr.  Lawyer

A recent article in the Boston Globe details the growing research which seems to show that one's ability to attend to a task can be improved with practice.  Medical research is demonstrating function we know as attention comprises an elaborate network.  Researchers at the University of Oregon, in work which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have shown a marked improvement in "executive attention" after 5 days of training with a specially designed computer program.  The article points to some research which also suggests that other facets of memory may be able to improve the inattention of children with ADHD, though the prognosis is mixed.