The default network is causally linked to creative thinking
This paper shows that the brain’s Default Network is causally linked to creative thinking….
Research Paper
Let’s get this meeting started: Meeting lateness and actual meeting outcomes
Meetings that start late are less productive and creative
Physical activity for cognitive health promotion: An overview of the underlying neurobiological mechanisms
Exercise supports brain function in 5 ways
Sleep has many faces: The interplay of sleep and work in predicting employees’ energetic state over the course of the day.
Sleep quality predicts day-level vigour. And: The benefits of good sleep quality decrease over the course of the day, particularly when workload is high
Relearn Faster and Retain Longer: Along With Practice, Sleep Makes Perfect
Sleeping between learning sessions reduces the amount of practice needed by 50%, and ensures better long-term retention.
To Detach or Not to Detach? Two Experimental Studies on the Affective Consequences of Detaching From Work During Non-work Time
Studies demonstrate that detachment from work as well as positive thinking improves subsequent affect, highlighting the causality underlying the association between psychological detachment from work – as a core recovery experience
Disruption of day-to-night changes in circadian gene expression with chronic tendinopathy
Improving circadian rhythm may help with recovery from tendon injury
Time spent in outdoor light is associated with mood, sleep, and circadian rhythm-related outcomes: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study in over 400,000 UK Biobank participants
Research shows that for every extra hour spent outdoors, you’re more likely to be happier, and to lower the likelihood of depression and antidepressant use.
“Give me a break!” A systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of micro-breaks for increasing well-being and performance
Micro-breaks have a statistically significant effect on vigour and fatigue
Acute aerobic exercise: an intervention for the selective visual attention and reading comprehension of low-income adolescents
Exercise improves your attention and comprehension abilities.