Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...

New research suggests that motivation acts less like a volume knob for effort and more like a camera lens that changes how ...

From going for a run to doing the dishes, motivating ourselves to take care of chores can be a struggle. But it could be as simple as watching our own brain activity. Researchers have used scanners to ...

There is hope for the unmotivated in physical activity. New large research has identified the characteristics of physical activity programs that best increase motivation for physical activity. The ...

Loss of motivation can kill your productivity, but if you can switch things up while you work, you’ll keep yourself fresh and focused. Prioritizing and scheduling tasks into activity blocks that ...

A recent study in Cell led to the discovery of a group of neurons in mouse brains that were shown to influence motivation in relation to tasks followed by rewards. That is, the increased activity of ...

Motivational and motor deficits are common in patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders, and are related to symptoms of anhedonia and motor retardation. These deficits in motivation and ...

Learning Online is a completely different experience than going to school to learn in person. The motivation levels required to sit in front of a screen for hours requires more effort than one can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “This is where that lifestyle medicine comes in that we need to be good at,” Holly Wyatt, MD, professor and vice ...

Promoting physical activity and other behavioral support can help people wanting to reduce their smoking to quit in the short-term. However, after nine months, physical activity delivers no noticeable ...

A new study has revealed that a lack of equipment and venues - and a lack of motivation even if those were available - are the main barriers to physical activity for adolescent boys. Lorraine Robbins ...