The fatigue and lack of motivation that many cancer patients experience near the end of life have been seen as the unavoidable consequences of their declining physical health and extreme weight loss.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many patients with late-stage cancer slip into a profound apathy as the disease ravages their bodies − and brains. demaerre/iStock ...

Motivation is affected by oxidative stress in the brain, a study shows. The findings also suggest motivation can be improved through nutritional interventions. In life, motivation can be the ...

A quick 10-minute routine can help you stay consistent with fitness, proving that action—not motivation—is key.

: In the mouse brain, two neural pathways were discovered: The first is active during motivation; the second is active only at the termination of motivation. In humans, these pathways could underlie ...

Maintaining high levels of motivation and productivity can be a significant challenge, particularly when faced with feelings of fatigue, laziness, or burnout. However, by adopting a strategic approach ...

Our willingness to help others is governed by a specific brain region pinpointed by researchers in a study of patients with brain damage to that region. Learning about where in the brain 'helping' ...

A recent Norwegian study (Sigmundsson, 2020) of almost a thousand women and men between the ages of 14 and 77 found that shortly after the early 50s, participants tended to show a sharp decline in ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and ...

A cruel consequence of advanced cancer is the profound apathy many patients experience as they lose interest in once-cherished activities. This symptom is part of a syndrome called cachexia, which ...

In a highly novel study published in Current Biology, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, describe how two major neuronal ...