The result suggests that when you zone out, cerebrospinal fluid is being pulled away from your brain. But when you snap back ...

When you zone out after pulling an all-nighter, the brain flushes outCSF), which surrounds the brain and spinal cord and is ...

Things You Didn't Know Will Kill You : 25 Facts Thatll Defy Your Expectations: Your brain can store the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of information, generate enough electricity to light a small ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? A night of sub-par sleep is enough to put anyone on their back foot. But a ...

Studies show that your brain doesn’t perceive the world exactly as it is. Instead, it “fills in gaps in perception.” The first layer of your brain’s primary visual cortex helps to decide what reality ...

Is late-night tossing and turning stealing your shut-eye? You’re not alone. Nearly one in five US adults struggle to stay asleep until sunrise — turning the dream of 8 hours of uninterrupted rest into ...

Here’s a cool fact: Even though your brain is only about 2% of your overall body weight, it burns about 20% of the calories your body uses in a day. So, food is literally fuel for your brain. Certain ...

Dips in brain health with age might not be as apparent as, say, the loss of bounciness in your skin or mobility in your knees (save for the random memory lapse). But to neurologists and ...

A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that the brain’s taste cortex responds not only to flavors on the tongue but also to aromas that reach the nose while eating, known as retronasal ...