Certain types of visual stimulation such as high glare and contrast, which you might see while driving at night or when it’s particularly sunny out, cause your brain to work harder than usual to process information. This stresses your brain and leads to headaches, irritability, and an inability to focus. It’s also one reason you get tired in the mi

In stark contrast to this misperception, neuroscientists have recently discovered that parts of the brain can fall asleep for a few moments or longer without our realizing it. At any given moment, some circuits in the brain may be off-line, slumbering,

“Our Western society is a bit ADHD-ish because we’re all sleep-deprived…. It’s huge. And it means something for us. So we’re all in a hurry, we’re all impulsive, we’re easily irritated in traffic. You see it everywhere around you…. This has been studied and proven in laboratories: you think you’re thinking clearly, but you’re not. You’re much less

millions of neurons are constantly monitoring the environment to select the most important things for us to focus on. These neurons are collectively the attentional filter. They work largely in the background, outside of our conscious awareness.