This company saw profits soar when they gave staff Wednesdays off. Science suggests they’re onto something.

We’ve known that exercise stimulates the brain, but we’re now discovering exactly which parts of the brain are stimulated by different forms of exercise. So which brain muscles are you working out?

We procrastinate because of poor emotion regulation. Instead of addressing the anxiety associated with completing the task and then doing it, we’d rather engage in pleasurable tasks & delay that anxiety. Sound familiar? The problem, is that this piles up when motivation kicks in and then conflicts us. The best solution is, of course, overcoming procrastination. Find some scientific solutions here.

Can time become a thing of the past? An island that sits north of the Arctic Circle enjoys 70 days of unending sunlight, and its residents argue that time is meaningless there.

Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body’s large, leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles. What researchers found is that using the legs, particularly in weight-bearing exercise, sends signals to the brain that are vital for the production of healthy neural cells, essential for the brain and nervous system.

It’s hard to set your emotions aside when you’re faced with a difficult decision. Unfortunately, more often than not, our emotional decision making is problematic. Most people find setting these emotions aside to be quite difficult. Luckily, this can be learned through a technique called self distancing.

10(Z)-hexadecenoic acid, a fatty acid found in the soil based bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae, interacts with immune cells to inhibit pathways that drive inflammation and increases resilience to stress. Researchers say the findings could bring us one step closer to developing a microbe-based “stress vaccine”.

One small incident. A misunderstanding. To a child, it can change their entire world. This is one families story about what can happen when an impressionable adolescent feels betrayed by the adults he once trusted and finds a new group of people who accepts him.

Community care is a system of care designed to uplift entire communities, unlike self-care, which focuses on the individual.

As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness. That’s why exercise is so important! A study conducted using elderly volunteers showed that those who routinely partake in physical exercise can reverse the signs of aging in the brain, and dancing has the most profound effect.