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MODERN LIFE DEMANDS OUR DIVIDED ATTENTION

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030708
Author:CAREY GOLDBERG

Remember that great old William Wordsworth sonnet that began, "The world is too much with us," and talked about laying waste our powers in all the hustle and bustle?

Now, there is a new permutation on that old lament, one based on brain science rather than romanticism.

It goes, in essence: Research increasingly suggests that our brains were never designed for this rush-rush, multitasking, socially disconnected 21st-century American life.

And that incompatibility arguably leads to anxiety, depression, and all kinds of other ills, even attention deficit disorder, or ADD, and physical health ...

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