Feel like your brain is in need of a reboot? If you say that in front of someone who is hip to the latest wellness trends, they might suggest you go on a “dopamine fast." It's a thing. “Dopamine ...

More people are trying out a “dopamine fast.” It's essentially giving up something for a period of time that brings you pleasure. You're supposed to take that extra time to write, meditate or exercise ...

Most people today know a dopamine detox or dopamine fast as a quick cure-all for their mental health problems. This is how it typically works: Step 1. An individual accrues a number of bad lifestyle ...

For the past few weeks, Nick Anderson has been out of whack. The Pennsylvania musician and program specialist at an early education center had been feeling anxiety and restlessness about his life, ...

Everything was going really well for the founders of SleepWell, a sleep analysis startup. Women wanted to talk to them; investors wanted to invest; their new site got traffic; phones were buzzing; ...

In his viral LinkedIn article, Dr. Cameron Sepah proposed dopamine fasting as an "antidote to our overstimulated age." To practice this method, the faster abstains from "behaviors that trigger strong ...

What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision-making and human behavior, scientists are studying ...

Some experts believe many psychological problems stem from excessive outside intrusions rather than inner conflicts. Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, contends that many ...