Distractions Can Ease Pain Our brains have a limited ability to focus. We can’t pay attention to everything around us all at once so we must choose what to focus on. For example, we may choose to ...

Dear Doctor K: I have chronic pain from arthritis. Lately, it’s so bad that I can’t get a good night’s sleep. What can I do? Dear Reader: Chronic pain and insomnia are, unfortunately, a common ...

Sweden's largest private pharmacy, Apotek Hjärtat, has launched a virtual reality app on the Oculus Rift store. The app, called "Happy Place", is designed to use an immersive virtual world to distract ...

WASHINGTON — Think preschoolers don’t know geography? Drive ’em to the pediatrician’s office. Starting around age 2, they’re crying before you make the final turn into the parking lot — they remember ...

There’s something strange about pain that waits until night. You can get through the day mostly fine, distracted by work, ...

In 1985, media scholar Neil Postman argued that we as a culture are "amusing ourselves to death." By this, he meant that the emergent media environment was occupying an increased amount of our time ...

Physical comfort has long been treated as a baseline assumption rather than an active contributor to performance. If the ...