The Default Mode Network: How the Mind Wanders
JAACAP Connect September 1, 2017 Florence Levy
The advent of sophisticated brain mapping techniques (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], functional MRI [fMRI]) has given rise to the accidental discovery of a “default mode network” (DMN) in the brain, which is activated when individuals at rest are left undisturbed to think to themselves.1 The activity associated with engagement of the DMN has been described as “mind-wandering,” and has...