The psychologist pointed out the harm of switching between tasks for concentration

Family psychologist and publicist Mina Khachatryan said that switching between tasks depletes the gray matter of the brain and increases cortisol.

In conversation with the agency RuNews24.Ru On Wednesday, October 14, she noted that work on any task begins with planning. The frontal-parietal network of the brain is responsible for this, which helps determine the goal, select the necessary information and eliminate distractions. Then the dorsal attention network is connected, providing concentration.

With deep concentration, the brain analyzes information and builds logical connections. In a relaxed state, on the contrary, he more freely combines memories and ideas, which contributes to the emergence of non-standard solutions.

Khachatryan stressed that it is almost impossible to simultaneously perform two tasks that require high concentration. The brain has to constantly switch between them, changing goals and working rules. This process requires significant resources, increases stress levels, and can be accompanied by a release of cortisol.

However, some classes can be combined without significant workload. For example, you can listen to music while walking, turn on a simple podcast during training, or make sketches during a phone conversation.

The expert explained that multitasking becomes possible when actions involve different channels of perception or one of them is brought to automatism. In this case, the brain does not have to constantly distribute attention between two complex processes.

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On the same day, Khachatryan noted that people can mistake fictional memories for real ones due to the peculiarities of memory, the website writes. kp.ru Confabulation is a psychological mechanism in which the brain involuntarily creates false memories, filling in gaps in memory with fictional details. 360.ru .

Evgeny Kulgavchuk, a psychotherapist, noted in an interview with RT on October 12 that procrastination is often not laziness, but a symptom behind which there is anxiety, perfectionism, or lack of meaning. According to him, the boundary between healthy planning and pathological procrastination lies not in time, but in function and awareness.

Psychologist Ekaterina Catalina told NSN on October 8 that it is very important not to bring the body to chronic exhaustion and take short pauses several times a day, otherwise, when the body is brought to the state of "I can't do it anymore," two days off really won't be enough.

At the same time, it was reported that researchers from Spain and the United States talked about the impact of brain injury on stress response. After a combination of trauma and stress, the researchers found increased molecular signs of an inflammatory response in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland.