Default Mode Network

Let's talk about the Default Mode Network (DMN)!
Location: Oodi library, group room 7.

The default mode network (DMN) is a system of connected brain areas that is especially active when a person is daydreaming, contemplating the past or the future, or thinking about the perspective of another person.
The DNM tend to be more connected for the people prone to rumination, and lonely ones. The DNM plays a role in creativity, and is active during sleep.
The DNM is about self-focus and mental time-travel, and its inactivity appears to be related to varied forms of mental illness.
Relaxation techniques, mindfulness, meditation, and even deep breathing can calm down the DNM.

The following sources are mandatory to read before the discussion:

• Default Mode Network (Psychology Today)
• Do Lonely People Have Different Brains? (Psychology Today)
• The Brain Mechanics of Rumination and Repetitive Thinking (Psychology Today)
• Why Can’t I Stop Worrying? (Psychology Today)
• Your Brain on Creativity (Psychology Today)
• Stuck in Negative Thinking? It Could Be Your Brain (Psychology Today)
• Dreaming and the default network: A review, synthesis, and counterintuitive research proposal (Academic Paper)
• Dreaming as mind wandering: evidence from functional neuroimaging and first-person content reports (Academic Paper)

If you might find an extra source of information you would like to discuss on topic, please feel free to let the organizer know so we could all prepare for it in a better way.

Hope to meet you soon! :)

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