What do you anticipate when you are about to go for a 20-minute walk, but struggle with chronic pain in your back, legs, or feet? You probably dread the inevitable ache radiating from your back or the ...

Breaking free from cigarettes doesn’t require willpower alone. The human brain possesses remarkable plasticity that allows for complete rewiring of smoking associations, transforming a deeply ...

You can change anything about yourself if you try hard enough - from losing weight to better mental health, all it takes is the right amount of willpower. Right? As you may have figured out by ...

Burnout has become the baseline for far too many of us — quietly creeping in through sleepless nights, missed deadlines, and the phantom guilt of unopened emails. It doesn’t always announce itself ...

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how ...

With growing interest in using psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders, researchers have explored the effects of a psychedelic derivative of amphetamine on rat brains. They wanted to see ...

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. —Buddha You may have tried to control your thoughts at one ...

Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to adapt and learn in response to life experiences. It can allow you to gain new skills and recover from injury and trauma. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ...

That mental merry-go-round of “what ifs” and “should haves” isn’t just annoying. It’s actually rewiring your brain as you read this sentence. Overthinking – that relentless mental chewing on problems ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or ...