Smartphones were a way to increase productivity while away from the office, but a new study says that instead they cause more stress, leading people to compulsively check the phone and even make a ...

When Joe Roe was hit with chronic fatigue in 2012, she was bed-ridden for three months. "I turned into an old woman overnight," she says. "I woke up feeling anxious about everything and anything - I ...

Popular trauma-focused talking therapies can help people challenge false beliefs and distorted thinking patterns but do ...

Neuroscientists have devised a way to alter our social perception and monitor specific types of hallucinations, both in healthy individuals and patients with Parkinson's disease. The test, which is ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

Flashing light can do more than illuminate a room. Delivered at specific rhythms and viewed through closed eyelids, it can produce vivid visual hallucinations, geometric patterns, bursts of colour and ...

I have experienced hallucinations several times in my life. When my kids were babies, I would hear crying in the night even when they weren’t. Just the other night while lying in bed, I saw a huge ...

Immersive Virtual Reality experiences reproducing visual hallucinations effects, miming those induced by the use of psychedelic substances, albeit without the actual use of substances. This is the ...

Subtle shifts in behavior and perception may be early indicators of cognitive decline, and recognizing them could be critical for early intervention and long-term brain health.