From going for a run to doing the dishes, motivating ourselves to take care of chores can be a struggle. But it could be as simple as watching our own brain activity. Researchers have used scanners to ...

You join a gym with the intention of improving your fitness and losing weight, only to lose motivation and stop going within a matter of weeks. Sound familiar? You’re not alone; 67 percent of us have ...

1. Orientation -- Causation and the Search for Determinants -- Views Concerning the Nature of Motivation -- Points of View and Psychological Relativity -- 2. Forms and Determinants of Activity -- ...

For many, finding the motivation to start and sustain an exercise regimen is like the search for the holy grail. Despite countless attempts to find their way to regular physical activity, Americans ...

Before your head hits the pillow, you make a mental note to exercise tomorrow morning. The next thing you know your alarm is going off. You hit snooze. Twice. It’s too late to exercise now; you tell ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “This is where that lifestyle medicine comes in that we need to be good at,” Holly Wyatt, MD, professor and vice ...

Maryellen Sault wants to keep up with how many calories she burns during Zumba workouts and exercises on the Ravenel Bridge. Things such as numbers, charts and graphs mean a lot to the cartographer ...

Motivation to learn new things and engage with life declines with age due to falling activity in a brain circuit that weighs costs and benefits, a study on mice suggested. US experts have been ...

Neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a study in Cell on October 27 identified the cause of the declining motivation to learn among elderly. MIT Institute ...