{"id":237836,"date":"2026-05-27T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/team-finds-brain-circuit-that-helps-you-switch-gears"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:05:27","slug":"team-finds-brain-circuit-that-helps-you-switch-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/team-finds-brain-circuit-that-helps-you-switch-gears","title":{"rendered":"Team finds brain circuit that helps you switch gears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-finds-brain-circuit-that-helps-you-switch-gears2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study shows how the brain abandons outdated strategies and adapts to new rules.<\/p>\n<p>Most people have experienced the feeling: switching from one task to another, only to find the brain momentarily stuck in the old mode of thinking. Sometimes, even after realizing a strategy no longer works, the mind keeps returning to it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientists call the ability to adapt and shift strategies \u201ccognitive flexibility\u201d\u2014a core feature of higher cognition that allows the brain to abandon outdated rules and respond to changing conditions. Impairments in cognitive flexibility are associated with disorders including Attention-Deficit\/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows how the brain abandons outdated strategies and adapts to new rules. Most people have experienced the feeling: switching from one task to another, only to find the brain momentarily stuck in the old mode of thinking. Sometimes, even after realizing a strategy no longer works, the mind keeps returning to it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}