It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to say that the single most important thing you can do to be more focused during the day is to get more rest at night. No one is at their best if they’re tired.

It can feel frustrating when they don’t seem to be performing at the level we expect, but distraction is an inevitable aspect of being human; however, we don’t have to keep living at its mercy. When ...

Unlock kids' brain power with a free online neuroscience escape room. The heart of the program is a five-day “Hack Your Brain” escape room, running April 15-19. The experience will challenge kids to ...

Shifting from a high-pressure mindset to a curious one improves people's memory, finds new research. Study participants pre-meditating a robbery in a virtual art museum remembered more paintings than ...

Have you ever dropped your phone? Maybe you weren’t paying attention to what you were doing or were excited to show a friend a photo. Suddenly, the phone slipped from your fingers and headed towards ...

TikTok users are singing the praises of the viral "brain flossing," or "brain massaging," movement, which seemingly helps folks decrease their stress and anxiety through specialized sound. TikTok; ...

Speaking two languages doesn't just expand your ability to communicate globally. It can make you more rational, improve your decision-making skills and boost your memory, says University of Chicago ...

Before you dismiss daydreaming as a distraction or a sign of “spacey” thinking, we have news for you: there is a counterintuitive brain hack called strategic daydreaming. This intentional practice of ...

A new study suggests that cognitive loss in patients with brain metastases may be due to the interference that cancer produces in neuronal circuits. When cancer spreads in the brain, it changes the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leveraging neuroscience to create remarkable leadership. The above-mentioned research tracked over 9,000 employees ...

Our brain has an internal traffic cop, the blood-brain barrier, which only allows certain molecules in and out of your noggin while keeping harmful substances, like germs, out. But this same barrier ...