In 1990, James Danckert 18 years old, his brother Paul drove a car accident hit a tree, when Paul was from a pile of rubble came out when he sustained multiple injuries, including brain trauma.
Complete recovery is difficult. Paul used to be a drummer, but when his wrist completely healed, drums no longer make him happy. Danckert remember, my brother again and again, bitterly complained that he felt very bored. "He is no sign of boredom. Even the things he once loved, he felt frustrated and dissatisfied, that was very boring." Danckert said.
A few years later,
Danckert became a clinical neuropsychologist, he worked in contact with 20 young patients who have been suffering the trauma of the brain. Think of his own brother, Danckert asked these patients is a problem that they have not felt bored more easily than before. "Everyone replied, yes."
These experiences make Danckert embarked on a study of the way now. As a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Danckert joined the current number is still small, but growing number of researchers in the team, they are working together to undertake research on boredom.
There is no widely accepted definition of boredom. However, researchers believe that boredom is not a simple, another name for depression, or simply not interested in about things. Boredom seems to be a state of mind, people feel unhappy, the lack of a stimulus can make their escape, causing a lot of behavioral, medical,
and social outcomes.
