When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8%, according to new Virginia Tech research. The findings ...

Subtle trouble juggling two tasks at once may signal Alzheimer’s disease risk years before the memory problems that doctors typically screen for, according to a body of peer-reviewed research linking ...

When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8 percent, according to new Virginia Tech research. The ...

Ways to Reduce Task Switching“I feel like I’ve done a lot of work today, but for some reason, nothing is finished.”Do you ever have days like that?Checking emails, making a few edits to a document, ...

Multitasking usually lowers productivity because most people are “task switching,” which creates a mental “switch cost” that slows processing and reduces accuracy. Switching between tasks strains ...

That constant tab-switching habit might be doing more harm to your brain than you think. We’ve all been there – responding to emails while joining a Zoom call, scrolling social media during a TV show, ...

A message appears on the screen; attention is drawn to it without any conscious decision, and the current task is put on hold. Deciding to switch tasks requires little energy, but actually doing so ...

Does this describe you? While you are on a teleconference call you are writing up your quarterly report, checking your email, and texting your friend about where you are meeting for lunch. You would ...

You probably know a person or two that brags about how good of a multi-tasker they are. Especially in today’s “hustle and grind” work culture, you’ll see them typing away on their phone while walking, ...

Days where I feel like I "don't have enough time" keep coming. I don't know if the volume of work has increased or if my ...