The modern workplace has created an epidemic of mental exhaustion that leaves millions of Americans feeling drained, ...

Effects of social media on the brain. Many of us suspect we spend too much time scrolling—a concern underscored by Oxford University Press selecting “brain rot” as 2024’s word of the year ...

To break an unwanted habit, on the other hand, consider removing familiar stimuli. ... → How to form good habits, and break bad ones: trick your brain; From the April 26th 2025 edition.

The image, as it happens, comes from dozens of brain scans produced by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who gave psilocybin, the compound in “magic mushrooms ...

But when the brain is damaged (as in this image from a patient who suffered a stroke in a part of the brain called the thalamus), the connections break down. Courtesy of Henning U. Voss ...