Psychology & Psychiatry

Our minds drift more as tasks drag on, researchers find

The longer a person spends on a task, the more their mind starts to wander—regardless of whether the activity is difficult or easy. In fact, toward the end of the task, individuals are typically thinking about something ...

Neuroscience

Exploring distributed workload in the fly brain

Recognizing motion requires an enormous amount of computing power from the brain. A new study from Alexander Borst's department at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence shows how the fly brain masters this ...

Neuroscience

How desk jobs alter your brain—and why they're so tiring

A long day in the office can leave you empty of energy and overcome with desire for TV and a takeaway. But you've been sitting down all day. So why do you feel as tired as your friends who have physical jobs?

Health

Athletes use stress to boost their wellbeing: How you can too

Almost everyone wants to know how to reduce stress. After all, stress can have many negative effects on both our physical and mental health. An increasing body of evidence shows that changing the way we think about stress ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study looks at brain flow, and how people achieve it

You are playing such an intense video game and are focused so intently on getting to the next level that you don't know what is going on around you. You have no sense of time passing. You feel great. You are "in the zone." ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Germany warns vaccine could take 'years'

Germany's health minister said developing a vaccine for the coronavirus could take "years", after Donald Trump predicted it could be achieved by the end of 2020.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Does aging make our brains less efficient?

We are an aging population. Demographic projections predict the largest population growth will be in the oldest age group—one study predicted a doubling of people age 65 and over between 2012 and 2050. Understanding aging ...

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