Your brain basically runs its own internal wash cycle while you sleep. Science is unraveling what happens when the system ...

Every night, especially during deep sleep, your brain activates its glymphatic system to clear out waste. Here are ...

As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...

New research digs into how the heart, lungs, and brain work together to shape experience. We speak of “butterflies in the stomach,” a “racing heart,” being “choked up,” or needing to “catch our breath ...

Most of us have experienced this: You stayed up a bit too late the night before, and although your body turned up to work, your mind was elsewhere. Blanking out during the day is common for the ...

"I spent the whole day lounging at home to refresh, so why does my head feel so heavy?" "When Sunday evening comes, I get hit with a sense of vague anxiety and unease..."If you are feeling that way ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're doing right now. Reading these words, feeling the weight of your body in a ...

For decades, stimulant medications have been described as helping people with ADHD "focus better." That explanation has always felt a bit incomplete for many adults who take medication and notice they ...

Doing more than one thing at once, especially on screens, can become addictive, which harms the functioning of our brain and nervous system.