“We found a striking pattern. When a switch occurs on the same day, the mortality rate for those patients rises sharply — from about 4.5 percent to 7.2 percent,” Liu said in the press release. “If you ...

Have you ever felt like your mind is spinning as you bounce between tasks, never fully landing on any one thing? Task switching can feel overwhelming, especially when it seems like there’s an endless ...

Transitions can be tough. For neurodivergent women, they can feel jarring, overwhelming, and almost impossible to do smoothly. Whether it’s moving from one task to another, wrapping up an activity, or ...

That constant tab-switching habit might be doing more harm to your brain than you think. We’ve all been there – responding to emails while joining a Zoom call, scrolling social media during a TV show, ...

These three habits might look like distractions, yet psychological research suggests that they’re far closer to real ...

The left figure illustrates the hypothalamus, a region responsible for encoding the switch between survival-related behaviors, along with its connected regions during the switching process. The right ...

Modern work culture has increasingly come to glorify multitasking. We make a habit of answering emails during meetings, checking messages while writing reports, and hopping between tabs dozens of ...