Audiovisual distraction techniques have emerged as a promising non-pharmacological strategy for reducing anxiety in children undergoing dental treatment. By engaging multiple senses ...

Distraction enterogenesis is an emerging approach in gastrointestinal surgery that employs mechanical forces to stimulate the growth and elongation of the small intestine. This technique offers ...

In 1985, media scholar Neil Postman argued that we as a culture are "amusing ourselves to death." By this, he meant that the emergent media environment was occupying an increased amount of our time ...

Is distraction a curse or a blessing? Not giving full attention to what we should be doing makes us miss deadlines, fail classes, and crash into other drivers. Distraction certainly has a price.

We live in what has been called the "distraction economy": an environment full of triggers that are engineered to demand our attention at every turn. The result is often fragmented attention, loss of ...